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Bangalore June 20 Though corporate India employs 20-30 per cent women in various roles, hardly one per cent of them actually move to top positions such as CFOs, CEOs and COOs. Compare this to the US, where women form about 50 per cent of the corporate workforce, occupying 15 per cent of the top positions.

Discussing this at a forum on `Inclusion and diversity', organised by Cisco India's Women's Action Network, senior women executives concurred that companies need to be `colour-blind and gender-blind' because the marketplace is so.

Ms Tracy Ann Curtis, Senior Manager, Inclusion and Diversity, Asia Pacific, Cisco, said that managers need to be evaluated on their cross-cultural competence, but at the same time it is not about filling quotas.

Ms Curtis, who has been working in India for the last three years, said that diversity in India is more about gender representation, rather than colour or race inclusion.

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