According to a World Bank report, close to 4 million poor women go “missing” in developing nations every year – about two-fifths are never born, one-fifth goes missing in infancy and childhood, and remaining two-fifths do so between ages 15 and 59.
What a pity! After thousands of years of human civilization, we could not make our planet a better place to live-in for women.
Globally women represent more than 40 percent of workforce. Despite this most organizations have this typical glass-ceiling which results in them getting discriminated which is done covertly, most of the times. A very recent newspaper report alleges Microsoft of unfairly overlooking a female employee for the role of managing director in a firm. Natalie Ayres who worked at Microsoft for 15 years was seen as an outstanding candidate to become GM of its “Small Medium Enterprise & Partner group”, succeeding Alistair Baker. But the role was allegedly handed over to Gordon Frazer, a GM at Microsoft South Africa, even before Ayres could finish her interview. It is also allged that the company paid over one million sterling pounds to silence Ayres. Such a behaviour is least expected from a company like Microsoft.
By engaging women on equal terms, organizations and societies shall do no favour. Such efforts shall bring back to them growth and sustainability. The World Development Report 2012 (Gender Equality & Development) says that – ‘Gender equality is all about smart economics, as it can have a huge impact on productivity and economic efficiency…For an economy to be functioning at its potential women’s skills and talent should be engaged in activities that make best use of those abilities.”
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