IIM Kozhikode Conducts Survey to Understand What Women Want
The IIM-K, in collaboration with 'The Star in Me', has conducted a survey on 'What Women Want in The Workplace'. The survey aims to highlight the challenges that women graduates from IIMs have had to face in their workplace and find out what can be done to remedy the situation.
The Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Kozhikode Alumni Association conducted a survey on 'Women in the Workplace'. This was a pan-IIM survey and was conducted by IIMK in association with 'The Star in Me', a global career advancement platform for women. The survey has been conducted in light of the Women's Day about to be celebrated on 8 March 2020 and it attempts to understand what women want in the workplace and their professional lives.
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The survey was kept open till 1 March 2020, and the results will be published on Women's Day. The survey aims to highlight the challenges that women have to face in their workplaces and understand what steps can be taken to make the workplace better for female professionals. Even in the modern world where so much is being done to give women equal opportunities all around and policies are being framed to boost education among girls, these types of survey are essential to highlight that there are still a lot of bridges to be built and women still have to face discrimination.
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The Indian Institutes of Management are some of the top education institutions providing management education in the world and many of the best minds in the business world have passed through their doors, which include women as well as men. Despite that, around half of the women professionals have reported not having equal opportunities as men in their workplaces. A number of factors such as lack of mentorship, gender discrimination, a biased social structure, lack of networking opportunities etc. have been cited as the reasons behind the same.
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The reason behind the conduction of this survey was a research conducted by the World Economic Forum (WEF), McKinsey and a number of other organizations that revealed the corporate gender gap in India and the challenging environment in workplaces causing women to drop their careers.
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