Women Leaders

Ghosh said that given the opportunity to right quality education, women will thrive.

Industry leaders shine a light on women achievers, & how to get them from the trenches to the high table

Women who have made a mark across various sectors shared insights into their unique journeys, their challenges, and how the path can be smoothened so that more women can get ahead and help build a fairer and better world.

Women's Day 2024 | Former SBI chairman Arundhati Bhattacharya: Don't wait for female role models

Salesforce Chairperson and CEO Arundhati Bhattacharya on why and how companies need to support women in the workforce, why the search for women role models is too limiting and why Arundhati Bhattacharya is famous.

Women over 40 are counting all their money

Somewhere along the way, women began to save, pay taxes, invest wisely and spend as they pleased. Most women, says a recent DBS & Crisil study, make independent financial decisions by the time they are in their forties.

Book excerpt: She, The Leader by Nidhi Sharma | How Smriti Irani recovered from a mistake she made in her early years in the BJP

Smriti Irani has completed more than 20 years in the Bharatiya Janata Party. A look back at some of her earliest assignments in Rajasthan and Delhi.

Cognizant appoints six female Senior Vice Presidents to cultivate diversity in leadership

Cognizant CEO Ravi Kumar S has highlighted the significance of the move. "Advancing diversity must be systemic, woven into everything we do starting with how we recruit and hire, develop, promote, engage and retain talent,” he said.

Women’s Day 2023: Bullet-proof fabric, and 19 more cool inventions by women

Windshield wiper, disposable diapers, aquarium, Word processor, ironing board – all these and several other everyday things were invented by women. On Women’s Day, let’s remember these inventors.

Engineers India not scared of recession in West, sees good growth this fiscal: CMD Vartika Shukla

EIL’s order book as of December 2022 stood at Rs 78,656 crore, 57 percent of the company’s order book was made up of consultancy projects while the remaining were turnkey projects, according to an investor presentation made by the company on February 4.

Healing Space | What New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern's resignation says about taking back control back

Whether you’re prime minister of a country or president of a company, women who gain self-worth want more than work, designation and pay. 

Women Entrepreneurs Day: Why aren't there more women in STEM?

The number of women in mid to senior positions in STEM companies is still very small.

How to take rejection, and 5 more takeaways from Edelweiss CEO Radhika Gupta’s ‘Limitless’

Edelweiss' Radhika Gupta on the perils of getting into a comfort zone at work, risk taking, work-life integration, taking rejection, and using negative feedback to get better.

“Building long-lasting relationships is my go-to business mantra”:  DreamFolks' Liberatha Peter Kallat

DreamFolks has coverage across all 54 airport lounges operational in India and a market share of over 95 percent of all India-issued card-based access to domestic lounges in India.

Gutsy review: An inspiring series about women who have fought against all odds and won

Keep your political opinions off for this wonderful show helmed by Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton.

"Sensitisation and communication initiatives, rather than activism, is the way forward": Anita Bhogle

Anita Bhogle, author of 'Equal, Yet Different', on career catalysts for women.

My Family and Other Globalizers | On the other side of working mom guilt

No one can have it all. But everyone can have different bits and bobs of “all” at different points in their lives. What’s important is the arch of one’s life.

North Korea gets its first woman foreign minister

Choe Son-hui is a career diplomat who served as a close aide to Kim Jong Un during nuclear talks with the United States and accompanied the him leader to summits with then US president Donald Trump.

Storyboard18 | Moms in Adland: The conflict between motherhood and work life is a reality

The past two years of work from home have changed the perception of moms in advertising, making us all more open to flexi hours, remote working options and not seeing these as deterrents to a woman’s career progress.

Intel Corp's Tanushree Ghosh on #MeToo, love contracts and the new normal

Tanushree Ghosh, senior engineering and program manager at Intel Corporation, and founder-director of Her Rights Inc, says hiring of women, both by men and women, has decreased after #MeToo.

How to invest on Women’s Day in times of war

Executive summary: Invest in stocks of companies led by Women CEOs; companies with keywords like pink in their marketing campaigns; and Pink coin - a cryptocurrency so pink, it's almost magenta.

Women's Day 2022: What is a glass cliff, and can it ever fade away?

Glass cliff refers to a situation where women are promoted to high positions during times of crisis, when the possibility of them failing is a lot higher.

Storyboard18 | To Her, With Love: From DDB Mudra's Pallavi Chakravarti to Twitter's Kanika Mittal, a 'thank you' to the women who shaped them

Leaders in their respective fields, these advertising executives share the most important lessons they learnt from their role models and the women who’ve had an impact on their lives.

Storyboard18 | To Her, With Love: HCL's Srimathi Shivashankar uses lessons she learnt from her grandmother in her work and life

In a ‘joint family’ in India, where one grows up with grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins, ‘teamwork with discipline’ was the only way of life.

Storyboard18 | To Her, With Love: Simeran Bhasin gives a shout-out to the inspirational women in her life

Simeran Bhasin, business head - alternative protein, Licious, on how her mother’s resilience and ability to reinvent herself shaped her.

Arundhati Bhattacharya: Making your contribution felt is not about hogging the credit. It’s about succeeding along with others

"When you work like this, it can help you climb ladders."