Pointing out that she had "never used gender as a grudge", Irani said one needs to look at diversity not just from a business point of view but from people's point of view.
"When I became the HRD Minister, in the IIT Council, the first meeting that I held, I saw that there were all men in the room and I said, don't you have a woman representative. They said no, they (women) are not good enough to be amongst the top layers of engineers in this country.
She said India had a rich legacy of diversity in all spheres and the country has women political leaders cutting across party lines, apart from their significant presence in fields like banking and media.
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