What Women Really Want

Watch a panel of leading ladies of corporate India share their journey to success.

Intel to invest in businesses led by women: Renee James

In the special edition of What Women Really Want, CNBC-TV18's Shereen Bhan spoke to the President of Intel Corporation Renee James, President of Intel India Kumud Srinivasan and Debjani Ghosh, VP - Sales & Marketing, MD - South Asia, Intel.

Does working from home increases productivity? Find out

Marissa Mayer has been in the news ever since she was appointed Yahoo's CEO in July last year when she was five months pregnant. Initial jubilation gave way to a heated debate when she announced that she would work right through her pregnancy.

Progress of Women's movement in India

A lawyer and a Gandhian, she was the head of the women‘s wing of the textile labour association in 1971 when she realized that self-employed women who work in Ahmedabad Crafts market had erratic wages and little recourse to law.

What Women Really Want: Meet people chasing their dreams

This edition of What women really want puts a spotlight on women who chase their dreams, women who stand up for what they believe in and make no apologies for living life on their own terms.

Women bureaucrats and their achievements

Women have left their indelible mark on Indian bureaucracy. Although the number is small but women have held almost every important post there is except for the top three posts in the bureaucracy - cabinet, defence and home secretary.

Indian women now taking the road not taken

The ecosystem in India is different and one that is perhaps uniquely poised for women to take the entrepreneurial plunge.

What Women Really Want

A legislative proposal is now being drafted by the Justice Commission to force listed companies in the EU to either reserve at least 40 percent of their non-executive director board-seats by 20-20 for women or face fines and sanctions

Women mentorship: What Kotak is doing

CNBC-TV18's special show What woman really wants will address what organizations in the banking and financial services space are doing to make the pipeline of women leaders in their organizations more robust.

What Women Really Want

Sallie Krawcheck, the once most powerful women on Wall Street has had many ups and downs in her career which is perhaps best described in the cover story of Fortune Magazine in 2002. She admitted that all the volatility in her career has taught her how to be a better manager.

Imposed self-selection in edu is economically debilitating

The picture of women higher education in India is quite startling. Since Independence, the enrolment of women in colleges has increased from 10% in 1947 to about 41% in 2010. But this number is still 20% lower than enrolment rates for men.

Women in India's labour market: Report card

'Women hold up half the sky' today this is the catch phrase of the world economic forums latest global gender gap report. But let us see where India stands.

What women really want: Feminine traits of leadership

Not wearing mask means being transparent and upfront. Not acting tough translates to being consultative and pragmatic. Both of these traits have been becoming increasingly important to a leadership in a world that has been tossed around in a crests and troughs of a continuing crisis.

Working mothers: Why women still can't have it all?

The person- Marissa Mayer who is making the switch from being a wise president at Google to becoming the 5th CEO in as many years of the beleaguered internet pioneer.

Do women make better leaders than men?

One of the most powerful woman in the world today, Christine Lagarde, Head of IMF and Former Finance Minister of France continue to say that it is no surprise that an Icelandic private equity fund wholly managed by women is the only such fund who have made it through the financial crises without a hitch.

Are women better leaders than men?

Study shows that a majority of people visualize a man as a leader. Why is that? That is because we are used to see men in leadership roles. If you are a woman who leads a team or a man who reports to a female boss ask yourself.