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Giải thưởng WEPs Châu Á - Thái Bình Dương của UN Women 2020:
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Người chiến thắng
Niraj Parihar, Executive Vice President, Leader-Insights and Data Global Business Line at Capgemini India.
Niraj Parihar is responsible for Capgemini’s WinspirE program which creates a sustainable pipeline of the best talent and increases women’s representation across levels.
The WinspirE program, led by Niraj, aims at providing equal growth opportunities and favourable working conditions for everyone and enabling women colleagues to achieve their career aspirations and organizational milestones. Gender equality is advanced by Winspire through the 4 pillars – recruit, develop, retain and promote.
Niraj is a senior leader in the Information and Technology industry with experience in leading large practices, global delivery & operations, P&Ls, Sales, and Territory Management.
The WinspirE program, led by Niraj, aims at providing equal growth opportunities and favourable working conditions for everyone and enabling women colleagues to achieve their career aspirations and organizational milestones. Gender equality is advanced by Winspire through the 4 pillars – recruit, develop, retain and promote.
Niraj is a senior leader in the Information and Technology industry with experience in leading large practices, global delivery & operations, P&Ls, Sales, and Territory Management.
Roshni Ravindranathan, HR Manager & Lead- Organizational Transformation, Biocon & Biocon Biologics.
Roshni Ravindranathan conceived of the strategies, operations and drove forward Biowin initiative for advancing job opportunities, workplace safety, work-life balance and career development for women. The Biowin platform offers meaningful ways in which women at Biocon can build rewarding careers in science and business.
She established Biocon women network chapter leads, back to work & people with disabilities ERG’s which were composed of and led by women employee creating leadership opportunities for women. Some of the actions implemented include- gender sensitization programmes for employees, creating Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), where like-minded colleagues could connect and bond, working closely with senior management to make Biocon a better place to work for women professionals, especially those returning from career breaks and people who are differently abled
Roshini aims to increase the gender diversity in leadership to 50% women (currently placed at 23%) by 2030.
She established Biocon women network chapter leads, back to work & people with disabilities ERG’s which were composed of and led by women employee creating leadership opportunities for women. Some of the actions implemented include- gender sensitization programmes for employees, creating Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), where like-minded colleagues could connect and bond, working closely with senior management to make Biocon a better place to work for women professionals, especially those returning from career breaks and people who are differently abled
Roshini aims to increase the gender diversity in leadership to 50% women (currently placed at 23%) by 2030.
Thoughtworks Technologies India Private Limited.
Thoughtworks has improved its representation of Underrepresented Gender Minorities (UGM) in tech roles, currently standing at almost 40 percent of their company.
Through Vapasi, a back-to-work initiative to re-enter the world of work after a career break, Thoughtworks offers a free, certified technical training program to sharpen the participants' technical & consulting skills while helping them build confidence through networking with senior technologists at Thoughtworks. The tools used are hands-on sessions, mentoring engagements and multiple interactions with leadership and amongst participants. Through their D& I efforts, they aim to build awareness and sensitize employees on topics like building equitable tech, unconscious bias, micro-aggressions, being a good ally, prevention of discrimination and harassment in the workplace, and more.
Sony Pictures Networks India Pvt Ltd.
As a leading Media & Entertainment player that reaches over 700 million viewers, Sony Pictures Networks (SPN) collaborated with local NGOs to deliver a series of workshops with D&I experts and industry professionals to improve the capacity of their content teams to produce inclusive content.
SPN’s content immersion workshop series, “Your Choice of Content Matters”, sensitized their content teams about biases and stereotypes that exist in content and pushed them to think beyond these stereotypes to create inclusive content. Through one of their programmes, Shark Tank India, in which aspiring entrepreneurs from India pitch their business models to a panel of investors and persuade them to invest money in their idea, Sony’s diverse selection propelled female entrepreneurs and women-owned businesses to the national forefront – with nearly 50% of the pitchers in the first edition of the TV series, being women entrepreneurs. As a result of the gender-inclusive selection, 43% of the startups which received funding had at least 1 woman co-founder.
Through their "Livelihood Skilling of Women for Self-Reliance" program, in partnership with Rural Education and Development (READ) India, SPN provided livelihood skills training for over 500 women in Maharashtra to boost employability, uplift socio-economic conditions, and empower them to start their own micro-enterprises. The training includes vocational and technical skills, like stitching, beauty and wellness, goat farming, fishery, poultry farming, IT skills, agriculture, product processing, and access and education about various government schemes thaat could benefit them.
Intel Technologies India
Intel's India's Vriddhi school upskills women in STEM and builds more women innovators in partnership with leading companies in the tech industry.
Through the Intel India STEM Upskilling Program for Women, Intel is looking to make a dent in bringing more Women into the STEM workforce. This helps to not only build the diversity pipeline for Intel but also for the industry overall. The key objective of this program is two-fold- firstly, to focus on pre-college students to ensure they have access to the right mentorship to take up STEM courses and secondly, to ensure women students currently pursuing their graduation have access to resources and real-world skills to enter the workforce.
Intel’s focus in this space began in 2021, with 800+ women engineers upskilled on AI/ML. This was followed by a pilot batch of 30 pre-college students where they introduced students to design thinking, introduction to AI/ML, scientific processes, engineering design process, the basics of embedded/hardware, presentation and communication skills, career counselling, and project work. Through a recent project, they upskilled 3900+ women engineering students on very large-scale integration (VLSI) and soft skills essential to make them successful in the workplace.
Biocon Limited and Biocon Biologics.
Through their BioWin initiative, a platform that offers meaningful ways in which women at Biocon can build rewarding careers in science and business, Biocon has taken measures to track and monitor their progress through a detailed dashboard as part of a systematic and organisation-wide initiative for diversity and inclusion.
At Biocon, the DE&I sensitization workshop is a mandatory with the objective to bring Biocon employees together in understanding possible unconscious biases and by enabling them to change any aspects that perpetuate latent stereotypes and biases.
In addition, initiatives like, WIS (Women in Science), WIM (Women in monitoring) and Career 2.0, engage with female students of science from universities across India, encourage women to take up mentorship & leadership roles, and enable women to re-enter the workforce after a career break or maternity leave.
SME Champion in the Workplace: GI Group Holding
GI Group holding has actively worked to bring more women’s voices into the boardroom and is working to create a gender balance at senior management levels.
GI Group are catalysts and pivot points in a complex process of change, working in the “decade of action” as the world inches closer to the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda and its 17 Sustainable Goals, some of which they directly and indirectly impact.
Inspired by the Sustainable Work framework, they generate a virtuous process of continuous improvement with strategic, complementary actions targeting People, Companies and Society & Institutions.
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Karon Shaiva, Chief Impact Officer & MD - Idobro Impact Solution.
Karon Shaiva is the Chief Impact Officer and Managing Director of Idobro Impact Solutions. Through, Idobro’s ABCD entrepreneurship she works towards providing an inclusive eco-system for micro/home-based, social and green entrepreneurs to help them build, scale and sustain their business. The program focuses on 4 basic building blocks for enterprise development – Access to markets, Build capacity, Create linkages and Deliver customised solutions.
The model can be contextualised based on the stage and maturity of the enterprise. It is also iterative and provides guardrails throughout an enterprise life cycle and entrepreneurial journey. So far Idobro has supported over 5000 Women, Social and Green Enterprises (WSGE) entrepreneurs and 1000+ enterprises from Aspirational to nano and micro-enterprises and Self-help groups (SHG) from across the world. They have also provided training and mentoring to entrepreneurs with special needs - students, transgenders and people with disabilities. Last year (2021) they trained over 500 entrepreneurs from Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and India.
Idobro works with WSGEs as both beneficiaries and enablers of development, building their resilience and using their innovation and reach for last mile solution delivery.
Aasawari Kane, Founding Member, PadCare Labs Pvt. Ltd.
Aasawari Kane’s work has been key to developing a sanitary napkin disposal and recycling system as well as sensitizing men and women on menstruation and menstruation hygiene management.
She also works to create hygiene management solutions, that helps to complete the loop on the menstrual hygiene economy by generating harmless, recyclable output from soiled pads. Through her work she wishes to bring positive and significant changes in the sanitary waste disposal system with a broader vision of safeguarding women, waste-pickers, and the environment.
Capgemini Technology Services India Ltd
Through their WiTi and WiS initiatives, Capgemini has helped company’s mid-level women colleagues become more career intentional as well as created a dedicated forum to support women sales leaders in the organization.
Their Winspire program aims at providing equal growth opportunities and favourable working conditions for everyone and enabling women colleagues to achieve their career aspirations and organizational milestones. Gender equality is advanced by attracting talent through gender focused recruitment practices, advancing women’s representation throughout the pipeline through focused interventions & development programs, providing tools to balance personal & professional commitments and by creating awareness and engagement to enable women to excel at Capgemini.
Aspire For Her Management and Consultancy Pvt Ltd.
EntrepreNaari by Aspire For Her, is a specialised network that offers free and easy access to resources, networking opportunities, mentorship, guidance and community support to existing and aspiring women entrepreneurs.
They create online and offline communities to enable women to enter, persevere and thrive in the workforce.
Aspire For Her wishes to enable over 1 million women to be a part of the economy
and add $5 billion to India’s GDP through increased participation of women
by 2025.
Their mission is to help women become financially independent
and turn their career aspirations into actions by enabling them to be a part of at least one of the ‘3Es’ – Education, Employment, Entrepreneurship.
Sony Pictures Networks India Pvt Ltd
Sony’s initiative focuses on livelihood skilling for women in Maharashtra's Beed district for boosting jobs, uplifting their socio-economic conditions, and empowering them to start their own micro-enterprises.
As a leading Media & Entertainment player that reaches over 700 million viewers, Sony Pictures Networks (SPN) collaborated with local NGOs to deliver a series of workshops with D&I experts and industry professionals to improve the capacity of their content teams to produce inclusive content.
Havas Group India
Havas has been tracking progress and impact of their initiatives in various areas on gender equality and women’s empowerment using measurement tools such as the UN Women WEPs GAT Tool to report their progress to stakeholders in a transparent manner.
Through their CSR programs, DE&I initiatives, and by ensuring a work culture that is focused on people and gender equality, the Havas Group is committed to bringing a change in the industry by moving the needle on women’s economic empowerment.
SME Champion in the Community: KGS Advisors-Community
KGS’ Womennovator is a global incubator for women supporting women entrepreneurs in metropolitans as well as tier 2 and 3 cities.
Womennovator provides support to women entrepreneurs to scale their operations domestically and internationally by creating distribution networks, enabling women leaders to become directors or job creators and women community leaders to become policy change-maker.
Womennovator provides support to women entrepreneurs to scale their operations domestically and internationally by creating distribution networks, enabling women leaders to become directors or job creators and women community leaders to become policy change-maker.
2nd Runners Up
Nina Nair, Senior Vice President and Human Resource Development Head, India and Americas,[24]7.ai
Nina Nair is the Senior Vice President and Head of Human Resources Development (India & Americas) at [24]7.ai. She anchors the service side of the business,Human Resources (HR) and Learning and Organizational Development (L&OD), in India & Americas. Nina believes that people who make the organization need an enthusiastic, caring, inclusive and happy workplace to flourish to their full strength. She believes that the values of an organization are the bedrock of the culture that embraces every employee and gives them a safe, fair and equitable workplace to learn and grow.
She has led several milestone initiatives within 24.7 ai including the Shakti programme and WeCare programmes among many others which focused on the hiring, development and retention of women, supporting women leaders to grow.
Nina has spearheaded the implementation of critical internal programs to make [24]7.ai a friendly, caring, and safe workplace.
Janess Pinto, Product Owner, Societe Generale Global Solution Centre.
Janess Pinto led the initiative Pride &Allies, which focuses on providing a safe space for women from the LGBTQIA+ community to be their authentic selves at work. In addition, she has also been actively involved in the LGBTQ+ Employee Resource Group at SG and various other DEI initiatives.
For her efforts in the above, she has received several accolades within the organisation in recognition of her efforts in employee engagement, diversity & inclusion.
IVillage India
IVillage is dedicated to empowering rural women in and around Uttar Pradesh, India, with the dignity to earn their own livelihood.
They have supported close to 100 rural women to gain confidence and become entrepreneurs by training them in producing sustainable products for corporate gifting with the aim of helping them gain financial independence.
Established with a clear mission to create and grow a socially responsible business that offers high-quality products and services, IVillage specialises in making sustainable and eco-friendly gifting products. To achieve their goal, they actively engage with partners and volunteers to train and up-skill rural youth and homemakers. They aim to build a successful and self-sustaining rural economy with women at the centre.
One 97 Communications Limited
One 97 launched a campaign on Paytm that centered around financial literacy and the need for more women to engage with these topics in India.
In their internal initiatives, One 97 encouraged their employees to become financially aware and independent and has since run several initiatives around financial guidance for their employees through regular webinars, timely IPO alerts, free Demat accounts and more.
One 97 believes in empowering women by providing them the opportunity to earn a livelihood through financial literacy. They conduct special webinars for women on financial investments and offer to help them get started on investing, if they haven’t already. In the past, the company has created campaigns aimed at making men and women realise that making women financially literate is of utmost importance.
Through their collaboration with the Department of Rural Development of Government of Uttar Pradesh (GoUP) for the BC Sakhi Project, they provided technology-forward banking solutions to people in rural areas through its free of cost services such as free zero balance savings account, free fund transfers, instant Debit card, etc.
Sterlite Technologies Limited (STL)
Sterlite Technologies Limited is a leading global optical and digital solutions company that provides advanced offerings to build 5G, Rural, FTTx, Enterprise and Data Centre networks. The company, driven by its purpose of ‘Transforming Billions of Lives by Connecting the World’, designs and manufactures in 4 continents with customers in more than 100 countries.Sterlite Technologies initiative for rural women’s economic empowerment through vocational training, livelihoods opportunities and self help groups has benefitted more than 4,000 women and helped them gain esential skills and created job opportunities.
Datamatics Global Services Ltd
Datamatics has consistently worked to implement the Womens Empowerment Principles (WEPs) across their organisation, having improved through holistic efforts and regularly undertaking WEPs self-assessments to track their progress and report internally within their organisation.
Apart from this, the company also runs an initiative to train and provide employment opportunities for people with physical disabilities and rural women. In addition, the company has a “Knowledge Associate” initiative that opens opportunities for individuals who would otherwise be unaware of employment opportunities; like at-home workers, people with physical disabilities who are unable to commute to work and employees in remote areas.
SME Champion in the Workplace: Capital League LLP
As an all-women boutique wealth management firm in Asia, for over 20 years, Capital League has supported more women to enter the field of financial services in India. Capital League LLP was set up to provide independent, unbiased, and exemplary services to a discerning clientele. Built on the foundation of integrity, ethics, and transparency, it is an all-women team of seasoned professionals with extensive experience in the private banking and financial services industry over several market cycles.
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