60 Percent Women Drop Career In Middle: Experts

NEW DELHI: Notwithstanding the upsurge of debates and measures to promote gender equality in workplace, experts say around 60 per cent of the women drop their career in the middle.

At the entry level, most organizations do well in hiring and training women, but the struggle with retention begins when women reach mid-managerial levels.

Greater gender balance in the workplace helps companies to improve their organizational performance, operational results and overall market status.

"Some of the factors that companies can adopt in order to bring in more women into their payrolls are by maintaining a better work-life balance for female employees and by mentoring and grooming them for bigger projects and promotions," Ritu Mehrotra, VP Global HR and Talent Management of Bristlecone, a Mahindra Group Company said.

According to GlobalHunt MD Sunil Goel "more than 60-70 per cent of the women drop their career at mid, due to their personal and family liabilities or been not given a adequate support and space within the organisation to grow further."

Experts are of the opinion that these trained women are valuable assets to a company and they need to see how to retain them, sometime even go the extra mile and ensure that all the investment made on the women employees is realised.
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