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Biocon chairperson Kiran Mazumdar Shaw has lamented that she is struggling to find enough women to play leadership roles, even though there is a significant rise in their number in junior management roles.
The comments come in the backdrop of the continuing calls for empowering and encouraging more women to take up leadership roles in companies and many other walks of life.
This is reflected in the very low number of women on the board of companies.
“Over the next 5-10 years we will hopefully see many more women playing leadership roles. Yes, things are happening but not at the pace that I want,” Shaw said.
Addressing the annual Nasscom leadership summit here on Friday, she also rued that regulations are not keeping pace with technological developments leaving companies unable to adopt them in smarter ways. “For many traditional businesses, the existential question is how do we embrace and leverage technology to secure our future. One of the reasons why traditional manufacturing industry hasn’t really been very smart about adopting technology is because of regulations which haven’t kept pace with what is happening in the technology world. This is our constant complaint and they are very very slow to move,” she said.
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