Genpact Centre for Women’s Leadership (GCWL) is an industry-academia partnership aimed at transforming leadership to a gender-neutral state, bringing women’s leadership to the forefront. The Centre is an emerging force against the gender inequalities that mire the Indian workforce. Using research, academic excellence, human centred design, policy dialogue and leadership involvement, GCWL designs programmes that can potentially change workplace equations for women. The Centre focuses on three key thematic areas, including: · Women’s Business and Human Rights - Aimed at making businesses responsible through gender-sensitive workforce and strengthening grievance redressal mechanism · Fostering Women’s leadership – Encouraging businesses to design and undertake gender data-driven policies to reduce gender leadership gap · Integrating Women In Workforce – Addressing entry and re-entry barriers that women face, including unconscious biases and stereotypes, maternity and promoting equality at the workplace Centre's Mission To steer the global thinking on ‘Women, Workplace & Rights’ and to design cutting-edge programmes that enable millions of women to lead with equality and dignity. The Centre aims to achieve its mission through specific, measurable, and actionable objectives by: · Enabling women to develop and realise their full professional potential, further career goals, and successfully contribute to workplace and business alike. · Challenging leadership to design workplaces where gender equality thrives. · Promoting gender positive policies and practices through collaboration with policy-makers.
