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Gender Equality and Women Empowerment {2/2}

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◆Interview questions: Women candidates are often put to the questioning in terms of their work commitment because of their familial responsibilities and the choices they make in their personal lives which the male candidates are not asked regarding that.
◆Conversations: Because of the deeply seated discriminatory attitude towards women, they are talked quite differently than their male counterparts.
◆Outdated views: There are outdated views with respect to the dressing, working, and how they should carry themselves, etc. which affect their productivity.

Potential areas of focus to bridge Gender gap:
●From a corporate perspective, every organization is promoting a healthy ratio of women in its workforce. When we look at statistics 3 years before, it used to be 18 to 22% even in the formal sector.
●This has risen up to a figure of 30 to 32% presently. Secondly, this vast workforce is coming at the entry-level.
●The private sector & the business community will be critical in helping bridge the gap between the skills & jobs and enable access to decent work for the women.
●Vocational & technical training, life skills & financial literacy programmes for women to help them develop marketable skills & better decision-making abilities.
●Companies can even invest in women entrepreneurs through the microfinance, and bring their goods & services into the supply chains.
●Enhancing women access to the internet & ICT (Information & Communication Technology) can create a market of connected women who can be linked to business opportunities.
●Increasing the representation of women in the public spheres is essential.
●Female leaders serve as the role models and raise educational and career aspirations for the adolescent girls and their parents.
●An attitudinal shift is essential for women to be considered as equal within their homes and in broader society.
●Educating the Indian children from an early age about the importance of gender equality.

Some major challenges:
•Stereotypical thinking & Patriarchal mindset is the biggest challenge.
•Declining CSR (Child Sex Ratio), the practice of gender-biased sex selection, and child marriage.
•Domestic violence against women is even high.
•Women being unveiled to violence by their partners.
•Police reforms or Judicial remedies, though absolutely necessary, are mostly curative, rather than being preventive.
•Benefits such as maternity leave or related facilities will not be accessible to her in the informal sector.

Way Forward:
•A self-drive from the complete workforce.
•Encouragement from the family members, society and the corporations with whom they are employed.
•The best way in order to bridge the gender gap would be in terms of education.
•There is much width in the area of secondary & tertiary education, but more so in the area of technical knowledge.
•Until we view this as a mindset issue, i.e. we change the patriarchal mindset and also our myths and misconceptions around the preference for the son’s, etc. we would probably be discussing all these matters in an economic perspective.
•Need ownership of the idea that women employment is something that one wants to achieve as a goal and not by chasing the statistics.
•Government Initiatives are very much required.
•Companies should even now start seeing women’s issues.
•Women should not be leaving midway in their careers.

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