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6 days ago
- Business
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Optics to outcome: Corporate India needs to do more on diversity
However, despite some progress at the top, the broader picture remains uneven Business Standard Editorial Comment Mumbai Listen to This Article The appointment of Priya Nair as the first woman managing director and chief executive officer (CEO) of Hindustan Unilever marks an important milestone for corporate India, which has witnessed slow progress in terms of gender diversity in leadership roles. Regulatory measures, such as the listing regulations mandating at least one woman director on the board of a listed company, have pushed companies towards greater boardroom diversity. However, progress has not been as desired. Women hold just 21 per cent of board seats, and only around 5 per cent of National Stock Exchange-listed firms have women as CEOs or managing directors.
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Business Standard
15-07-2025
- Politics
- Business Standard
Mind their language: The State should abstain from imposing choices
The policy, being implemented in phases, stipulates that students learn at least three languages Business Standard Editorial Comment Mumbai Listen to This Article The three-language policy, under the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, has sparked an avoidable controversy that local politicians are exploiting. The latest debate has been simmering for at least a year and reveals that no political party is free of language chauvinism. Significantly, the controversy has roiled India's more industrialised states — Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and Maharashtra (where residents are being harassed for not being able to speak the local language) — principally over fears over the imposition of Hindi. From blue- to white-collar, all three states have been recipients and beneficiaries of large cohorts of migrant workers from India's
