They tried hard to maintain their employment status even after the war ended.
Over the years, women’s movements and revolutions helped achieve the desired basic benefits for women initiating women empowerment.
India is an agrarian country which saw many women out in the fields working all day long.
Though they had entered the labor force, they needed to start making a mark for themselves in the corporate world. With increasing levels of education, women slowly started transitioning themselves from the field to other jobs in business and corporate world.
Women have certainly come a long way and working outside the home resulted in a number of positive empowerment outcomes such as financial independence and greater decision-making power within the household.
Though we can celebrate the rise in the number of women in organizations, it still needs to be seen if we can increase the numbers at the senior management level and break gender stereotypes and cultural dictates that hold them from sitting at the table.
The various initiatives taken up by organizations to support work-life balance are fast gaining popularity across different industries and sectors, and the gap we see now is slowly yet steadily being bridged.
With India poised to become the largest economy in the world by 2030, it definitely cannot afford to leave half of its workforce behind!
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