The glass ceiling is still quite intact, and women in India’s largest and most successful companies are not able to break it. Data sourced from Primedatabase shows that just five per cent of India’s 500 listed companies have a woman as a Chief Executive Officer or a Managing Director. Of these 500 companies, 319 don’t have women as Key Managerial Personnel.
Based on market capitalisation, 27 of the top 500 NSE-listed companies are led by a woman. Just four of these 500 companies have more than one woman MD or CEO. The topper here is Jindal Saw Ltd, led by three women. While Sminu Jindal is the company’s MD, Tripti Puneet Arya and Shraddha Jatia are the company’s Joint MDs. All three of them are OP Jindal’s granddaughters, the company’s founder and the daughters of OP Jindal’s son, Prithviraj Jindal.
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