Editorial Two
Issue 363 February 15, 2017
Dr Sangeeta Karmokar, a qualified teacher and research scholar has done well in launching Women Entrepreneurship Centre (WEC) to inspire and encourage women to become successful businesspersons.
As she mentioned in our story appearing under Homelink in this issue, “This is a platform that helps women entrepreneurs to reach their full potential and create economic and social value for themselves, their organisations and the society. The Centre has innovative education programmes, events, and workshops to support women entrepreneurs.
Gender equality or inequality has been a topic of discussion since long, but the issue has been generating heat in the public domain in recent years.
Reasons for re-emergence
Two major reasons have been cited for its re-emergence – the global financial crisis that brought to the fore many ills of companies, and recent reports, which indicate that companies with women (at least one) on the board of directors and on management boards tend to perform better than others.
It is indeed time to address this issue with greater thoroughness and sincerity. For many years, researchers and corporate consultants have been saying that New Zealand is among the countries with a poor record of gender equality and that in many cases, women are paid less than men for performing the same type of jobs, often within the same company.
Indian community better
It seems there are no valid reasons for this inequity and like many things in life, there is greater interest in preserving the status quo ante than in thinking afresh.
We are happy that the situation in the Indian business community is far better, compared to their counterparts elsewhere in the country.
We have women occupying positions of importance- as owners, directors, HR managers, chief financial officers and so on in companies that are owned, operated, managed and franchised by businesses of Indian origin. We have seen them participate in all management decisions, setting policies and strategies and steering their organisations towards higher levels of productivity and profitability.
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