Business plan for gender inclusivity
There are too few women in the work world that we inhabit, especially in senior leadership positions, and we collectively need to do something to help change this, says Rama Bijapurkar
THIS is the business planning season and today is International Womens Day. So, now is a good time for all of us women readers of ET, to start a collective business planning process towards the goal of sustainably improving the market share of women in leadership positions in the world of business.
But before we debate strategies and solutions, let us first get a better understanding of the problem we are solving for. The problem statement is: There are too few women in the work world that we inhabit, especially in senior leadership positions, and we collectively need to do something to help change this. But first let us ask the most basic question: why should we want more of us to be in leadership positions? For several reasons, the least important of which is the now fashionable argument of organisations benefit from diversity. The very idea that we have to prove the case of why a fair representation of women in leadership roles is a good thing for organisations is offensive.