Human Resource

Human Resource ...Women in India have struggled to establish an identity and create a life space in social as well as work organizations. Educational institutions are training women to enter into new professions and to move away from traditional expected roles and low paid jobs. My study is an analysis of the increasing employment of women in the corporate world. The emphasis is primarily on professionalism. All respondents in my sample are first generation women earners and economic motive was very important to them. My interest in women in the corporate world started 5 years ago in 1995-96 when I found that many of my students were giving entrance exams for their Masters in Business Administration (MBA) courses. As a teacher both at the Masters Programme and at the Under Graduate Level, I found more women seeking admission to these courses. In 1972 three decades ago we were less than seven women teaching Business Studies courses in Delhi University. In my college I started the Business Studies department by mobilizing 30 girls students to join this course, today there is a great demand for this course. There are 562 students in this department after strict control in admissions due to growing numbers. Uncontrolled, the numbers would be more than double. We try to limit the number as far as possible. Many of my students began to take up Jobs in ‘marketing’, ‘finance’, ‘Human Resources’ and ‘law’ into the corporate world. The preference for traditional jobs like teaching or secretarial began to shift into new areas of employment for women. The need of this study arose when I began to meet an increasing number of women in public forums, in alumni seminars and symposia and various professional bodies. These women were courageous as they had entered the Corporate World, which in Indian Society was considered to be a...