XLRI launches centre for gender equality and inclusive leadership at Delhi-NCR campus

XLRI as an institution has always been a pioneer in taking up various issues like Ethics, Sustainability and Social Entrepreneurship much before they became fashionable.

With an aim to empower women in the country, the Xavier School of Management has announced that it has decided to set up the Centre for Gender Equality and Inclusive Leadership at Delhi-NCR Campus to make a meaningful impact on inclusion of women in economically gainful activities.

In line with this year’s theme of women’s day ‘Women in Leadership: achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world’, XLRI celebrates International Women’s Day by setting up a Centre for Gender Equality and Inclusive Leadership to promote women’s participation in economic activities and help bring more balance in the society.

XLRI as an institution has always been a pioneer in taking up various issues like Ethics, Sustainability and Social Entrepreneurship much before they became fashionable. The center brings together a large group of professionally well-established alumni and industry practitioners who will collaborate with XLRI to design and deploy a wide range of interventions to transform the daily lives of Indian women.

The centre will be built up at the newly opened Delhi-NCR campus of XLRI. The new centre will be led by Prof. Shreyashi Chakraborty, an Assistant Professor in the area of Organizational Behaviour at XLRI. Her primary research interests are inequalities, diversity management practices in Indian workplaces and career experiences of women employees. She had also won the Emerald Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award in the area of HRM in 2017.

“In September 2020 the World Economic Forum published their 14th Gender Parity Report. The research report was alarming – India ranks very low. The Top-5 countries have closed 80% of the gender gap – Iceland leads at 82%. India is at 112th position – a 4 spot decline, behind several LATAM, Caribbean, middle-eastern, and north-African nations. Globally, the economic participation and opportunity gap expanded in 2020 – a worrying sign that women are persistently less present in labor-markets than men. WEF report calls out that economic opportunities for women are extremely limited in India (149th rank) at just 35.4%, followed only by Pakistan, Yemen, Syria, and Iraq. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has further intensified the gender-related challenges. There is a severe need for promoting women to participate in economic activities for the betterment of women’s economic empowerment," she said.

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