{"id":1078,"date":"2026-05-09T08:42:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T08:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2026-05-09T08:42:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T08:42:37","slug":"progress-of-women-in-corporate-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/progress-of-women-in-corporate-roles\/","title":{"rendered":"Progress of Women In Corporate Roles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Data shared in this week&#8217;s Business Standard paper, based on the &#8220;Women and Men In India 2025 Report&#8221; indicates that there is a lot of continued work needed in this area.  The data indicates basic incremental progress.<br><br>Some key notes:<br>* Even as women are making inroads into corporate leadership roles, gains remain limited. The change is gradual. Pay gaps continue to persist. <br>* Women representation in corporate boards inched up from 25.8% in 2017 to 29.1% in 2025 (similar incremental rises across other management roles). However, their share in senior management remains sharply skewed at just over 17%. <br>* Women&#8217;s labour force participation has risen from 23.4% in 2018 to 40% in 2025 but remains far below men at nearly 80%. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-08-at-08.50.10.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-08-at-08.50.10.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1079\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-08-at-08.50.10.png 780w, https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-08-at-08.50.10-300x185.png 300w, https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-08-at-08.50.10-768x473.png 768w, https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-08-at-08.50.10-676x416.png 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br><em>Source: Business Standard, May 7, 2026, Datanomics, Women See Limited Gains in Top Jobs, Shikha Chaturvedi.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data shared in this week&#8217;s Business Standard paper, based on the &#8220;Women and Men In India 2025 Report&#8221; indicates that there is a lot of continued work needed in this area. The data indicates basic incremental progress. Some key notes:* Even as women are making inroads into corporate leadership roles, gains remain limited. The change [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hr","category-organization","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1080,"href":"https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions\/1080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tojoeapen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}