Why Don't Women Get Promoted? | Vantage with Palki Sharma

Why Don't Women Get Promoted? | Vantage with Palki Sharma

According to a new study, for every 100 men, only 87 women get promoted. This is despite women wanting to get promoted and asking for promotions. So what is holding them back? Palki Sharma tells you.

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[maheeinvest]

Palki, this time you are fake. In the name of gender diversity, equality, and women's leadership men are facing heavy challenges in the corporate sector, even if there is no contribution from women, they must get promoted as part of gender diversity. I am one of the victims like many men, in my office in the name of promoting women(who are already 60% of the workforce) as part of women's empowerment, this exercise is happening at many corporations even though their contribution and delivery is not up to the mark. I agree there must be equal pay but without any contribution and without any hard work in the name of gender how can you promote and hire? Remember, women empowerment means engaging women equally not suppressing men to uplift women. In India, women misuse and violate anti-dowry laws to take revenge now they're using this gender diversity and women empowerment to scale up the ladder despite their negligible contribution.

[swapnayan]

Equal opportunity doesn't necessarily means equal outcome.

[myvu-mvix]

We don't only need headlines of what a survey said... but we also need details on how survey conducted and sampling etc everything....

[anotherone]

Because there is no 50:50 ratio of male and female employees in an organization, its mostly around 70:30. So if I am correct then women have higher chances of getting promoted compared to their male colleagues.

[LoneWalker-efse]

At my college placements, there were some companies which came to hire only female students. And this was for roles like Software Developer. And it might sound sexist, but the truth is that, very few girls (next to none) were good at coding compared to a lot of boys who had at least some knowledge of the same.
Dell for example, came to hire 3 candidates, but hired only one because the girls were just not good enough. Meanwhile, many deserving male candidates didn't even get the opportunity.
Even today if you open any job searching website, you'll find a few "female candidate preferred" for the role of software developers.

I know all this is required for women empowerment and I am ok with it, but my problem is that people don't acknowledge the benefits that girls/women get and are constantly complaining. Life isn't fair to anyone

[anotherone]

The stats that needs to be shown is what percent of women got promoted compared to men

[Athirahindustani]

We cant have everything . Menstrual leave, harmonal leave, pregnancy leave . So the company says just leave 😂

[mjzkul]

A. This is totally false in tech

B. Are we also talking about bricklayers miners and other hazardous jobs?

C. Entire HR and QA depts are filled with females

[Athirahindustani]

Why are we not competing to do scavenger, mining, military jobs ? Are hard, dangerous job only for men ? Arent we equal ?

[Captain___]

I call BS on this ...
Women get promoted all the time.

[Anonymoushuman]

Women if they were on Maternity leaves recently, are not being promoted in India despite best in team

Managers in india give promotion to others if deserving candidate is on maternity leave or recently came back from maternity leave. They count maternity leaves as no performance.

[Athirahindustani]

A colleague of mine took almost 5 days off / month . Ofcourse for obvious female issues but created such drama when her male colleague was promoted .
This was 30 yesrs ago .
Now with wokism I cant imagine the entitlements but our bodies nd harmones dont understand wokism .

[Dewdrops]

Female leadership is very important for young women to progress in their careers. I have had 2 horrible bosses (both male) who felt entitled to my time by that I mean dumping their work on to me. I worked for 14 hours a day x 6 days a week. Thats 12 hours in office and 4 hours after reaching home!! Barely got appreciation for the work I got done and serious micromanagement. In contrast female bosses have actually respected my time, bothered to teach me something and best of all, they have respected my time. All the bitter men in this comment section have probably been beat by smarter and more productive women 🎉

[hsroy]

People get wat they deserve ..men who dont gwt promoted dont whine about it like his type of males were not promoted, its not fair and stuff.

[hsroy]

Why women only fighting for position of power...fight for position at all levels.... Thats y putting them in a managerial position is risky for many.

[var]

Many factors contribute to the underrepresentation of women in higher positions:

1. Most women work fewer hours in general when compared to men in similar roles. A female employee can be very skilled but if she does not bill the required hours, she will be outmatched by men who are more willing or able to work longer hours. I have seen then first hand in my family and with family-friends. Women reach office late, leave early, take more hourly breaks and vacations/leaves. Anecdotal evidence may not compare to factual evidence but it is not without merit.

2. Women don't have the skills. Sometimes, women are hired to meet diversity quotas (directly or indirectly, where companies may not say it outright but they will hire more women then men for government benefits) and the female hires may be less-skilled than men in similar roles. Men do not have any luxury when it comes to sexist hiring and mostly never lack skills for a particular role. Now the skill gap is not a generalization like the above point and I know many skilled professional including my mother who is a knowledgeable government officer; but it can be argued that most reports of women not getting promoted come from those who are not skilled, creating reporting bias. This will be further explained in the next point why women in higher positions may not report promotion bias.

3. Women are not workers, they are nurturers. They are not designed to "work" like men do to the same degree of complacency and efficiency as men. Actually, please correct me if I'm wrong but, I have heard "women" CEOs argue that they would hire less and less women, if given the choice, since they would not have to deal with laid back attitude, constant emotional tackling and complaining that comes with hiring women. Very few women are professionally stoic, both on the outside and the inside (i.e. not petty, because anecdotal evidence suggests that women can hold intense and longer grudges for longer than men). Running business requires emotional maturity. Most women, not being able to display this trait, are excluded from higher positions (often by women in higher positions themselves) that require maturity.


I'm not arguing against acknowledging that biases may play a role in these issues but to say that just these biases, in and of itself, is responsible for this issue is a poor argument at best.

[bestvideos]

Ask for gender separated space for everything. Don't share same space with us men. Build you own economy.

[prrashantmehta]

Basically, women want to enjoy everything equal but, she don’t want to share responsibilities equally with her husband. Till date she is dependent on her husband and after mainly Divorce and claim for Maintenance form him. Why? If women want equality then why dependency on a male? A Husband?

Actually, a women want to grow, and shine but under the protection of a husband and at the same time she wants a backup plan also. This tendency shows a lack of confidence. We are living in the society where everything is observed by everyone.

A simple psychology is if a person (Male or Female) unable to maintain Him / Her self then how can be He or She be useful to a company or even a society. I may be harsh but this the reality as specifically when choosing a future husband, a girl first looking toward earning potential of a man. So, companies also choose the candidate same way. Nothing wrong in it. So, dear women, please understand before complaining.

[arijitnaskar]

For the 1st time, I dont completely agree with Palki s news...at least my experience in an IT giant shows, you are surely promoted if you are a woman and not that bad..that's, experience takes a back seat....men with better performance, experience and potential to contribute better does not get what they deserve....

It has its pros and cons..that's a different topic..however women does not get promoted in corporate world equally as men is not probably true in today's India/Bharat. 5:13