When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak./Audre Lorde
I have always had mixed feelings about this whole ‘Women Leadership’ idea. A leader is a leader, I thought. Why should gender enter the picture? Surely, we look for general leadership qualities in a person and anyone who has those should be the right person for the job, whether it is in a corporate or a country. I am a leadership development consultant who works...
Mira Rajput, who few people, including me, had heard of is suddenly in the news for her comments about her life choices and especially the statement referring to her role as a mother, “I wouldn’t want to spend one hour a day with her and rush off to work. She is not a puppy, I want to be there for her as a mother.”
To me,...
I am relaxing on my couch watching ‘The Intern’ on DVD. Robert De Niro, plays the eternally affable Ben Whitaker who joins About the Fit, an internet start-up as The Intern. He is 70, his boss Jules Ostin, played by a stylish but stressed Anne Hathaway is a 30 something woman.
Ben is escorting his employer’s daughter to a birthday party and comes across the stay...
Indrani Mukherjee is doomed. Even before any tangible evidence comes to light, even before a court hearing before she makes any kind of statement, she has already been judged. The case has been a bonanza for the TRP hungry news channels. The story has captured the attention and imagination of a nation. How can a woman kill her own daughter, we wonder. How depraved, how...
A talk with Anuranjita Kumar, author and Head of Human Resources in Citibank
Can I have it all? This is a question that every woman contemplating a career invariably asks herself. Is it really possible to rise to the top of my field, bring up intelligent, well-behaved children, maintain a loving relationship with my spouse and stay sane and stress-free?
While there is no single formula for...
