At the beginning of last year, before the pandemic struck, an acquaintance was showing me around the campus of a recently established private university. As a senior administrator of the institute, my guide took pride in the splendid facilities, from the swanky new lecture-rooms, the library, and the commodious cafeteria, right down to the postcard-like, impeccably pruned lawns, still fresh with the morning dew. But I could see that he had kept the best for the last.
“Our training interventions for corporates,” he beamed, “are cutting-edge. We recently concluded a flagship Women’s Leadership Programme, for one of our major clients – over 80 high-performing female managers from across the country undertook it, at this campus.” I was expecting him to add something, but seeing that he didn’t, asked: “So, how many male personnel attended the training?” There was a perplexed pause. And then he said, brows knit: “But this is a Women’s Leadership Programme, no?”
Source: The Economic Times
