Women’s participation in large listed Indian companies has been rising consistently, data complied by the ET Intelligence Group from the annual reports has revealed. It rose to 23% in FY17 for a sample of 70 companies from 21.6% in the previous fiscal. The sample companies constituted nearly 50% of the total market cap of the listed companies in India.“Many companies have incorporated programmes to hire women that is creating a sizeable demand. IT and BFSI have women participation ratio in the range of 20-36%.As of December 2017, TCS was the top women’s employer with 137,590 women on its payroll, or 35.2% of the total workforce. Infosys reported the highest proportion of 36.1% of women employees in FY17.According to data from Bloomberg on women’s participation in executive roles, Cipla topped the chart with half of its executive team comprising women.

Source: Economic Times March 08, 2018 01:16 UTC