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1. Women’s Career Choice
and ba ancing it with
Personal life
- in Indian Context
by,
Ezhi l Nandhi ni
Vasant han Manohar an

2. Women Balance

3. Men Balance
But we comfortably choose to not look closely

4. Women
 Muriel "Mickey" Siebert – In 1977 she was named New York State banking
superintendent
 Mary Kay Ash – Founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics
 Marjorie Scardino – was a CEO of Pearson
 Shelly Lazarus – first women CEO of O&M
 Meg Whitman – former CEO of e-bay
 Anne Mulcahy – former CEO of XEROX
 Julia Gillard – First Women Prime Minister of Australia
So what?
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/womenceo1.html

5. Then
 Child Marriage
 No Education for women - only home makers
 Education but Early Marriage
 Education and Employment
 Employment but restricted to sectors
 Partners/ Parents influenced women in choosing their career
 Women chose their career
 Partners’ work place
 Work timings (always 9-5 jobs)
 Travel Timings (in and around where they lived)
 Jobs with less responsibilities (office assistant)
 Work Loads and leave benefits (Teaching)
 Temporary jobs – to suit their family situation

6. Now
 Equal Education and Equal employment opportunities
 Organizations also have brought in a lot of women friendly policies
 Women are in
 BPOs and IT industry
 Banking and Financial
 Advertising, Media and journalism
 Engineering and Rocket Science
 Truck Driving and Mine works
 Leena Nair, Executive Director, HUL said its unacceptable to say women aren’t given opportunity in
corporate ladder – as quoted in Economic Times, 3rd November 2011.
 An AVTAR research project reveals women expect Flexibility, Mentorship, Skills Trainings for them
to re-consider the decision to quit – according to Economic Times, 13th April 2012
 Is the business ready to afford the time and money?
 But why on first place did the question come on Women reconsidering their decision to quit jobs?
Because the corporates need Women on-board.

7. Hails
 Unlike 20 years before, career options for women are enormous with equal opportunities
now.
 Gone all those days to see women just being a Personal Assistant or a glam doll at the front
desk
 Now exposure and education possibilities for women are limited to SKY like for men.
 Women are getting equal opportunities for education and are doing better than men.
 In an open competition like School Board Exams, its girls that score high marks.
 Organizations are welcoming women and making provisions for women to score in their
career.
 Women have risen to the challenge by negotiating flexible work options, extended maternity
benefits, in-house creeche facilities grievance handling, Personal Consultants and Mentors, et
all.

8. Hails
 Women are working in Mines and petroleum tube lines, Oil wells.
 One might not have heard much of a woman who manages a Coal Mine with male
labours for Rio Tinto based in MP.
 From Victoria's Secret factory floor to Pepsi’s Strategic Business Decision
 But, most of the time women go with a knife for the gun fight unlike men - but it
took less than 2 decades for Indian women to soar and be here fighting Society and
Employers.

9. Hurdles
 The most attractive IT sector is occupied by 25% women and now it has lost its perishability
among women nowadays that they choose Banking and insurance – according to a TOI report, 9th May
2012.
 While these industries accept the factor that women could take break up to FIVE years, the
lucrative and pressurized IT sector doesn’t give that privilege for women.
 But we shouldn’t forget that neither men are given the privilege to take a 5years break in any
industry; not a even a year.
 The Hindu, March 2010 quotes that the most discussed topic by women in and off the work place is
“Work-Life Balance”.
 The society comprising of women and men is still expecting a woman to be a home maker at
one stage.
 Undue pressure on a woman from her family when she reaches a certain age.
 Lack of support from family members when it comes to choosing between family and career.

10. Hurdles
 IT Parks have gone to another level to bring EVERYTHING under one roof –
Creches, Shopping, groceries, hospitals, entertainment, schools and what not in
one place – yet we see working woman chooses turning to home makers in the
same IT parks
 So the only thing that could possibly stop a woman from achieving in her career is
herself and a combination of personal decisions she makes
 Personal decisions such as deferring marriage and children are understandably few
hard choices that a woman ought to make
 But at the end it's her will that determines where and how she wants to go in her
career

11. Truth
 Its easy for Women to make a career choice like Men do.
 A Woman can never balance her work life and Personal life.
 Neither can Men.
Period.
 The debate can never be who is better, Men or Women?
 It could be; Can she overcome the hurdles or not? Yes she can. But she has to live
with the choice she makes like all men do.

12.  Myth – Women can never do Men’s job
 Truth – Men can never be a Home Maker

13. Thank you