Open AccessA PERCEPTIONAL STUDY ON THE TYPE OF WORK WOMEN UNDERTAKE IN TOP POSITION IN SELECTED SERVICE SECTOR WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO PUNE
Author(s) -
Harini Rajan,
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Anuja Johri,
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Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
ymer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.103
H-Index - 5
ISSN - 0044-0477
DOI - 10.37896/ymer20.12/52
Subject(s) - position (finance) , work (physics) , tertiary sector of the economy , gender disparity , service (business) , gender equality , senior management , representation (politics) , economic growth , informal sector , political science , demographic economics , socioeconomics , geography , business , gender studies , sociology , economics , marketing , public relations , engineering , politics , mechanical engineering , finance , law
India has one of the lowest female labor force participation rates in the world and a majority of women work in the informal sector. The World Economic Forum said that at the it will take India 108 years to close the overall gender gap and 202 years to bring equality in the workplace. Even though there are more women graduates, the number of those joining the corporate sector and rising to the top remains abysmally low. (Thakur, 2020). In the recent study by Credit Suisse Research Institute (CSRI)India Ranked 23 globally, India’s female representation on boards has increased by 4.3 percentage points over the past five years to 15.2% in 2019.Though female participation rate increased but it is significantly below the global average of 20.6% (Pathak ,2019). India is near the bottom of the rankings for female representation at senior management levels, only marginally better than Japan and South Korea. Accepting the fact that female participation is top position is very less in India from the above figures this paper aims to examine the women in the top position as well as threw a light on area or type of work in which women are engaged in select service sector in Pune city