Companies With Women on Board Get Blockbuster Results

Be it defense services, banking, business, or household. India has always been rich in every field of art, science, media, and corporate and it has given birth to some of the most extraordinary women go getters especially in commerce.

And to prove these facts, examples can be quoted from real life. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, who is the Chairman and Managing Director of Biocon, a biotechnology company based in Bangalore, India. She earns the credit for company’s evolution from an industrial enzyme manufacturing company to a fully integrated bio-pharmaceutical company. Today, the company has a well-balanced business portfolio of products and a research focus on diabetes, oncology and auto-immune diseases.

Women have an equal potential, what a money making men can have. According to Vijay Govindarajan, management guru and Coxe Distinguished Professor at Tuck at Dartmouth, “Approximately 50 percent of the world's population is women. If we have to harness the full power of human imagination, we must reflect that diversity in all aspects of business,” reports The Times of India.

Industry data suggests that information communication technology and consumer goods sector have the highest representation of women on their boards with 13.27 percent and 13.08 percent, respectively. The lowest representation of women has been found in the energy and infrastructure sector with 5.36 percent.

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