Vodafone India Celebrates ‘#ConnectedSheCan’ during International Women’s Week

Armed with a key focus of building a diverse and inclusive work culture, Vodafone India will celebrate the International Women’s Day with a week-longseries of exciting events lined up from March 6^th to 10^th, 2017. The theme #ConnectedSheCanis aimed to bring a positive change to the lives of millions of women worldwide by enabling financial inclusion, improving health and wellbeing and building skills and entrepreneurship abilities in them.

Over the years, Vodafone India has consciously worked to build an inclusive work environment and acknowledge the role that women play within the organization and society at large. It has also focused on increasing the representation of women in its13,000+ strong countrywide workforce.

Expressing his views on the organization’s future ambitions for women empowerment, Suvamoy Roy, Director – HumanResources, Vodafone India said, “We are an equal opportunity employer. Our diversity journey is built on the foundation of creating an ecosystem that is attractive to women professionals and enables them to succeed at the workplace. We are delighted to host a series of engaging initiatives as a part of #ConnectedSheCanto celebrate our women colleagues and their contribution to the workplace during this week.”

Vodafone India’s Diversity Journey: Quick Overview

• Diversity and inclusion continue to remain a top priority for Vodafone.
• Overall diversity(%) - Moved from 14% in FY13-14 to 22% in FY16-17, a significant jump of 8% + in just 4 years
• Discover Graduates hires: over 50% women hires vs. 38% in 2013. In 2016, we have on-boarded 120 students through this programme. Out of the total, 52% are women hires.
• The gender ratio at our mid to senior level management positions is at about 16% (135 women out of 836 senior management positions) up from 10% in 2013.
• Vodafone India currently operators 40 Angel Stores (women only stores) across India
• Launched Vodafone Inclusivity Network – where all employees can join the forum that focuses on influencing culture inclusivity at workplace. 95% of all people managers have undergone ‘Inclusive Leadership’ workshops focusing on unconscious bias
• Pathways to success career series - structured intervention to work with the existing women employees to plan and advance their career.