The document discusses the complexities faced by women in attaining executive positions in India and highlights the low representation of women in management, with only 2% in managerial roles. It presents statistics indicating women's significant contributions to the workforce, especially in rural areas, and emphasizes successful women leaders in the corporate sector. The document concludes with an acknowledgment of the cultural progress and financial independence of women, alongside the challenges they continue to face in organizational settings.

1. Women in power:
Issues and challenges
By Group :2
Nachiket, Barsha, Alarka,
Poooja, Neha, Kanha

2. Introduction
• Research reveals that the attainment of top
executive positions for females in the world in
general and India in particular is complex and
involves many variables.
• Understanding those variables is important to
formulate strategies overcome such forms of
gender inequality in organizational leadership.

3. State of women in management
• Recent study by catalyst showed that
▫ Fortune 500 companies with the highest
percentages of women corporate officers yielded
35.1 percent higher return on equity than those
with the lower/lowest percentages.
▫ Even more encouraging is Fortune's conclusion
that the list of brand-name firms with women
chief executives is longer and more impressive
than ever.

4. State of women in management
These are encouraging phenomenon but how
widespread is this in the Indian management
sector!!

5. State of women in management
• Women today comprise only 2 % of the total
managerial strength in the Indian Management
sector.
• India is witnessing an increased participation of
women in senior levels along with places like
Taiwan, the Philippines, Hong Kong and Sweden
and also seeing an increasing number of women
occupying management positions in leading
companies

6. Current statistics
• According to 2011 census, women constitute 48.46%
of the country’s population of 1210.19 million.
• They comprise of 96% of the workforce in the
unorganized sector in the country i.e., in fields,
construction and other such sectors.
• On the contrary, in the organized sector, the
proportion of women stands at 15%.
• In the civil services the number of women has raised
from 311 in 1985 to 501 in 1996. Only 3.47% of
women join the police force.

7. GDP and women’s contribution
• The growth in women’s employment has been
higher as compared to men in India during
2000-2005.
• Studies indicate that 34.45% of rural women
worked compared to only 20% of urban women.
The vast difference occurs in the category of self
employed, where 32% of rural women work, and
compared to just 11% of urban women.

8. Women luminaries in corporate sector
• Naina Lal Kidwai
▫ GM and country head of HSBC
India
▫ Charted her way investment
banking field and is currently
said to be the highest paid
woman executive in the
country.
▫ She is the first woman CEO
of a major foreign bank in
India.

9. Kiran Majumdar Shaw
• Founder of “BIOCON” , one
of leading organizations in
the field of biotechnology.
• In 2004, Biocon’s share was
oversubscribed 32 times and
its first day at bourses closed
at $1.11 billion making Biocon
the second Indian company to
cross $1 billion on its first day
of listing.

10. Kalpana Morparia
• Head of financial services,
J.P.Morgan’s operations in
India.
• She had a dominant role in the
transformation of ICICI from a
development finance institution
to the country’s second largest
bank during her stint of over
three decades with the group.

11. Indra Nooyi
• Indian-American business
executive and the
current Chairperson and CEO
of PepsiCo.
• She is nominated as the CEO
of the year 2009 and the
world’s fifth most powerful
woman in Forbes poll, 2007.

12. Indu Jain
• Chair person of largest
media group Bennett
Coleman & Co Ltd.
• She is an entrepreneur, a
spiritualist, an
educationalist, a patron of
art and culture and a
humanist.
• She addressed the United
Nations in 2000 at the
Millennium World Peace
Summit of Religious and
Spiritual Leaders.

13. Challenges in the organization
• Acceptance of the woman as the Boss
• Gender Discrimination
• Delayed promotions
• Sexual Favors
• Security Concerns

14. Conclusion
• The cultural development of the society has caused a
significant progress in the status of women. More
and more women are becoming financially
independent and this has had a remarkable impact
on the country’s economy. Creation of self help
groups in rural India has given an opportunity to the
women, not only to add to the family income but
also contribute to the GDP of national economy.