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The SHEROES Report – Women at Work India 2014

Voices From The Horizon

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Contributors for The SHEROES Report

– Women at Work India 2014.

More on the Report here-

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Voices From The HorizonAnu Singh Choudhary


“Like a meaningless poem, ‘freedom’

was just another word stuck in my

head. But that word was opening up

various possibilities simultaneously.

That word – freedom –begged for

understanding and invited

dislocation.”


Voices From The HorizonAnurag Shrivastava


“Companies do want gender

diversity, and that is why we see in

campuses around to 30%-40%

recruits are women. Within 5-8 years,

dropout rates are high and that is a

hugely concerning factor. In a lot of

cases the stereotypical society is to

be blamed.”


Voices From The HorizonDeep Kalra


Women have been hard at work,

breaking the proverbial glass ceiling

since the early 80s. Nearly thirty-odd

years on, we see them holding less

than 5% of Fortune 500. This, despite

the fact that more women than men

have graduated from American

Universities with bachelor’s degrees.


Voices From The HorizonDeepa Soman


“Given a choice I want to be born a

woman, but in a family, state and

country that gives me the freedom

to be deeply creative, abundant,

inspiring and free to choose my life,

or with the courage to stand up and

fight for what I believe is right.”


Voices From The HorizonGeetha Kannan


“Diversity in today's work

environment should start right from

the top in most companies, and the

companies that have been positive

have shaped cultures where

awareness, acceptance and diversity

are core company values.”


Voices From The HorizonGitanjali Chaturvedi


“I once asked a group of women to write

down what motivated them to work. I

read responses such as “supporting my

brother’s education in an engineering

school,” “supplementing family income,”

or “being able to provide extra needs for

my children.” I don’t remember goals that

focused on their own development or

growth.”


Voices From The HorizonMeeta Sengupta


“I have never seen women not at

work. Paid or not, there is always a

buzz around them.”


Voices From The HorizonNamita Bhandare


“Armed with the guilt of being a bad

mother and grappling with the

knowledge that I had failed to be one

of a superwoman who seamlessly

manage families and careers, I

handed in my papers.”


Voices From The HorizonNatasha Badhwar


“After 20 years of being in the

workplace, this is what I want to add

to the conversation about women at

work: Women are always at work. We

need to start honouring the work we

do every day.”


Voices From The HorizonOsama Manzar


“Mobiles are cheap and easy to

access irrespective of literacy

quotient. Women at grassroots feel

safer and highly empowered even

with the most basic mobile phone.”


Voices From The HorizonPrashant Bhaskar


“What will it take to offer both

Workflex and unlimited vacations in

your company policy? Trust. Just trust

and it works. Nobody at plugHR

stayed on vacation all 365 days since

we rolled out this policy.”


Voices From The HorizonRajwant Sandhu


Visiting Panchayats in areas as diverse as Himachal

Pradesh, Rajashan, Madhya Pradesh, Assam, W.

Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Kerala, a few years ago, I was

witness to the silent revolution that had come about.

There was less of purdah and when the woman

Pradhan is addressed by the BDO, the Deputy

Commissioner, the Secretary to a State Government,

the MLA, the Minister and Secretary to Government of

India as “Pradhanji” or “Sarpanchji” does it not

enable the elected woman representative and her

sisters to hold their heads high?


Voices From The HorizonRakshita Diwedi


“I too had a ‘she’ in me who kept

fighting with time and finally gave up,

but then the comeback happened.

And it only happened because I made

it possible on my own terms of work

flexibility. ”


Voices From The HorizonRitu Baruah


“Women over generations have

proved their metal, some being

trained ‘swimmers’, but for the rest it

is the ‘survival instinct’.”


Voices From The HorizonRiitu Chugh


“Everyday is an adventure – in doing

great things in my work space.”


Voices From The HorizonSangeeta Mall


“Juggling two jobs at once cannot be

a picnic but I would have it no other

way. Like every mother, human or

otherwise on this planet, I adore my

children but at the same time, they

cannot suck away my entire life.”


Voices From The HorizonSarita Povaiah


“The winds of change have begun,

but there’s a lot more that needs to

be done before women can truly

claim their place in the Indian

workplace as a force to reckon with.”


Voices From The HorizonSonia Golani


“I profess that it’s important to

focus and get the microcosm

right and the rest will take care

of itself.”


Voices From The HorizonSrishti Kush


“I’m sure all people my age are at

crossroads, clueless of where the

roads might lead us, apprehensive

about treading on the wrong path

and all this with dreamy eyes.”


Voices From The HorizonSucheta Tiwari


“ My work involves trying to

understand why women get sick and

die. A by-product is learning how sick

societies and sick women share the

same story”


Voices From The HorizonSurabhi Dewra


“Woman, add two ‘As’ to climb up the career ladder – Aggressive and Accountable .”


Voices From The HorizonTeja Lele


“Comments like “Ah, so you ‘work from

home’?” “Isn’t that nice; you’re at home

all day and you’re paid for it?” and “No

office – I want a job like that too!” come

my way regularly. It usually gets my

hackles up to have to explain that work

from home is challenging and fulfilling

work.”

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