By Makarand Gomashe
Recent years have seen a shift of work culture and hiring dynamics at workplace. Most of the new hires are asked to submit their demographic details along with the job application is to evaluate and ensure the equal opportunity to people from different backgrounds, including gender. In the 21st century, it is ironical and surprising to call a woman as diversity. According to a research report published by Statista, in 2018, 89 percent of respondents believed that in the Asia Pacific region, diversity and inclusion initiatives were primarily focused on gender equality.
Even after the focus on gender inclusion and industry wide practices to increase women proportions, the gender equality at workplace still looks like a distant goal. Hence, here it is important to ask and understand that can hiring women in good numbers or mere promoting them to higher positions sustainably solve the issue of gender gap at the workplace?