Name: Why Quotas Won’t Fix Gender Inequality
Uploaded: 2016-06-14
Duration: 2 min 33 s
Description: It’s supposed to be about retention.

[ MUSIC ] Which I called the defining moment in anybody's career which is pay and promotion. So, make sure you pay attention in this too defining moment. What happens to your women. Then you know that's exactly when usually they're getting to the point where they're senior enough, but they want to build a family, rightly so. And that's the point where you need to make sure, not only do you have the program, the maternity [ INAUDIBLE ], everybody has that. It hasn't worked. What you need to do is to have those program But also have senior leader like yourself and myself in the seat. Make it believable that it is okay to go have a kid and come back and your job will be there. Yet unless people look at you and you tell them that and they believe you they're not going to take up. The problem here today with the maternity program is that our women are not taking it up. Is there. They are not taking it up because they don't believe it's possible to go and come back and your courier is there. So we need to make sure we own that, and we make them believe it is possible to do that. Just 30 second- And by the way, we need to Encourage men to also take paternity. Because the day women see men taking paternity, they will take maternity more. I think that brings me to a very quick closing point, which I'd love to open up to the audience, but we are running out of time. 15 second answer, how long do you think this will stay a boy's club for these women to believe that they can come back and have a career? I answer your question in a different way. I think we are in a defining moment. It is our time and it's up to us to seize the moment. Because like I said, before women would not apply, today they are applying. So we kind of get over the bad reputation we had with To the industry's hungry to attract more women. So it is the time where actually you have two side of the equation who really want to meet. And so it's up to us to make sure that we seize the moment. But it's a long journey ahead, isn't it, [ UNKNOWN ]? We gotta be focused on it, the problem is that, and that's a debate about culture, right? People say This whole debate about quota, what quota does is that it gives you instantaneous results right? You certainly would have 50 % of your workforce being female, but that doesn't make you retain the woman. You can have 50 % there, if you still don't have the programming, if you still as a leader don't care about them, they will leave. So, unfortunate, people try to have one singular answer to a multidimensional problem. [ MUSIC ]