It has taken a pandemic to crack the glass ceiling in India By Diksha Madhok, CNN Business The coronavirus pandemic appears to have given an unexpected boost to a small — but influential — cohort of India’s working women. While the educated women in middle-to-senior positions have seen job opportunities rise in the last year, recruiters in the country told CNN Business. They attribute the shift to the trend of working from home that many companies have embraced during the pandemic. “‘Flexible’ used to be a bad word for recruiters,” said Neha Bagaria, founder of online jobs platform JobsForHer. “It really took the pandemic to gain an acceptance for work from home roles.”