IIMs Witness an Increase in Female Enrollment

IIMs have recorded a positive gender diversity for the current academic session 2019-20 with overall 1,619 female candidates gaining admission as against 1,349 in 2017-19. The number of female students admitted to IIMs this year has been highest with 30.61 percent as compared to 26.85 percent in 2018 and 25.69 percent in 2017.

Among all the IIMs in India, Bangalore, Rohtak, Tiruchirappalli, and Sambalpur have witnessed a better gender balance in the enrollment. IIM Bangalore has enrolled 165 female students to its flagship MBA programme as compared to 114 female students in the 2017-19 batch.

IIMs Female Enrollment Statistics 2019

IIM Rohtak has witnessed the most dramatic increase with 6 per cent female students in 2016 (9 girls) to 50 per cent of the batch in consecutive two years. Check the table given above. Prof Dheeraj Sharma, Director IIM Rohtak said that one of the main reason for the increase in female enrollment at IIMs is because the corporates have made gender diversity the priority. This is one of the main reason that women are showing interest in higher education especially management courses. More female students are now competing for the CAT which has led to improve gender balance among students in IIMs.

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Also, the IIM Nagpur offered the highest summer internship to a female candidate (Batch 2018-20). Some well-known companies like Amazon have specific hiring programme to improve gender diversity. Amazon Women of the World Event is an example of one such program.

IIM Ahmedabad has been constantly trying to improve gender and academic diversity by introducing changes in their admission criteria. The efforts of the premier institute are successful to some extent, as the PGP batch of 2018-20 comprised of students from varied backgrounds.

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Madhu Srivastava, Group CHRO, Vedanta Group is of the view that there is a significant increase in the number of women being hired in high impact roles and the number of women in leadership roles has also increased. According to her the selection criteria of the IIMs is encouraging diversity. To promote gender diversity is one of the prime goals of IIMs across the country.

With a significant increase in the number of female students at all the IIMs across the country, we can hope for a future which does not define gender roles and more women are taking up leadership roles!

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