Leakage in talent pipeline of women after graduating from IIMA

Abstract

In the past three decades, it has been observed that women participation in workplaces has considerably risen. However, when it came to staying in the workforce for more than ten years, the story did not remain the same. As per Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead (2013), 43% of women with children leave their jobs. Women are increasingly outnumbered as they rise through the ranks. Thus, the pipeline of talent is leaking women at every transitional point causing a dearth of female talent at the end of the pipeline towards the top as per McKinsey Report: Women Matter (2013). A woman at the 10-year point is five times more likely to leave the workforce than her male counterpart. The results of a study conducted by ‘The Atlantic’ seem to suggest that women leave the workforce because they cannot balance home and work responsibilities.