NTPC hires an all-women engineers batch on Women Equality Day
- ByAyushi Ray | August 27, 2021
NTPC hires an all-women engineers batch on Women Equality Day, thus ensuring diversity and inclusion at the workplace. Engineering graduates were selected based on their performance in GATE 2021 in electrical, mechanical, electronics, and instrumentation disciplines. Out of 50, 30 people were offered the position of executive trainees, and all of them are currently undergoing a customised induction-cum-training programme at NTPC’s Regional Learning Institutes (RLIs) located at Sipat, Vindhyachal, and Simhadri, according to a press statement. The company is said to have implemented policies like paid child care leave, maternity leave, sabbatical leave, and special child care leave on the adoption of a child or delivering child through surrogacy “to support women workforce.” “NTPC has been working on improving its gender ratio wherever possible. It has always believed in providing equal opportunity to all the sections of society and has consciously promoted diversity through its hiring practices,” the company said.
After the Pandemic has mostly affected women and their jobs, it is important to bring back the women back to the working force. The total global female employment is 13 million lower than in 2019, and the gender-based difference in recovery rate is now termed as “shecession.” However, in India, the hiring of women in middle and senior management rose to 43 percent in 2020 (up from 18 percent in 2019), as per a report published by women’s career development platform JobsForHer in May 2021. About 41 percent of startups surveyed had achieved their goal of gender diversity hiring in 2020, establishing that several companies are adopting initiatives that help eliminate gender biases to create a more diverse workplace.
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