Women in workforce? A work in progress, even in India's largest companies

The final part of the series on affirmative action in India Inc finds that women account for just 20% of employees. For most firms, the number is in single digit

Women seem to have less of a space in the workforce of India’s largest companies than one might imagine.

A Business Standard analysis reveals that less than a tenth of the employee base of even India’s largest companies may be made up of women. The data on female employee was sourced from the business responsibility reports of S&P BSE 100 companies. A total of 67 of these companies had data comparable over three years.  

The total women as a proportion of all total employees in the companies under consideration has risen from 18.51 per cent to in 2015-16 to 19.74 per cent