Corporate Gender Gap || Acharya Prashant

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00:00In the Indian corporate scene, at the entry level, the participation of women is close to 50% now.

00:06And then it drops steeply when it comes to the top, the C-suite category.

00:11There the participation is barely 10 to 15%.

00:13Why? Ideals.

00:15I'm a woman. I'm supposed to be educated. That's fine.

00:17I'm supposed to get a job. Even that is fine.

00:20But then comes an ideal. Something else becomes more important.

00:23And then to decorate the ideals, we start using euphemisms.

00:27Say, she's a great caregiver. What exactly do you mean by that?

00:30Why can't we be raw and direct?

00:33When you are being so careful and deliberate, doesn't that smell of deceit, inner deceit?

00:39To defend one ideal, you want to counter the raw fact of life.

00:43The raw fact of life is strife and struggle.