Years of identity-related activism and discourse have finally borne fruit with anti-sexual harassment policies, gender and racial diversity, and unconscious-bias trainings going mainstream and becoming a key part of modern workplaces. And the biggest proof of this encouraging turn of events is the growing prevalence of diversity and inclusion as a core part of corporate…
With CSR becoming the norm for all medium- to large-scale companies, private and public, CSR causes and fields have also expanded substantially. This means that companies are now doing work that was hitherto the exclusive domain of governments or, in many cases, collaborating with it. There are legitimate questions and concerns around the fact that…
Current discussions and debates on social issues related to race, caste, gender and religion in progressive circles have somehow managed to trickle into popular discourse. This means that even as many people are railing against the ‘revised’ norms of what is considered as decent, acceptable behaviour, they are being forced to adapt to this new…
Since the second half of 2015, CB has run over 40 features on multiple sectors such as banking and finance, retail, real estate, FMCG and healthcare, not to forget the non-profit sector. One of the key parts of any such article is to reach out to the relevant organisation and ask them a set of…
‘Our education system is broken’ is a refrain heard nearly everywhere. But unlike other throwaway observations, this one has more than a kernel of truth in it. That our system is only capable of mass-producing identical worker bees with little creativity or originality of their own is an accepted fact. The idiosyncrasies, quirks, uniqueness of…
That climate change and pollution are two of the biggest problems afflicting the planet are indisputable facts. Also undeniable is the critical role of governments, corporations, civil society and institutions in combating their worst effects. If there has to be some hope for this little blue planet we call home, they have to come together…
MeToo in India is just about a year old. While plenty of brave survivors of rape, assault and sexual harassment have been speaking out against their perpetrators even before feminism became a term, the MeToo movement’s place in the annals of feminist history is guaranteed for encouraging and helping millions of women tell their stories…
In this second part of CB’s deep dive into sexual harassment at workplaces, we try to dispel some myths and look at some studies on how corporate India is dealing (or not) with this problem. CB had reached out to over 50 large companies across sectors to understand how they currently deal with such cases,…
If 2017 will be remembered for anything, it won’t be GST, the cartoonish villain that is Trump, or the bluster of North Korea, it will be an innocuous little hashtag that blossomed into a full-fledged movement: #MeToo. While the far-reaching effects of this movement have been felt by possibly every woman and man with access…
When this author was young(er), one of the many mistakes she made was to get an MBA degree. However, one of the few good decisions while getting that degree was to opt for the social entrepreneurship course in her second year. The teacher was a fairly well-known personality in Indian academic circles and came into…
