Support women

Sketched by Swathi Medavaram

Today in our Company there was an event organised by Dhriti Community. It was an Interactive session with Beth Devin. It was about “Climbing the Corporate Ladder – Challenges and Opportunities for Women.”  It was organised more like a question and answer format. We were curiously waiting for the event to start. Beth entered the venue. She is a pretty woman with a beautiful smile. An intro about Beth was presented by Singer Sangeetha Gururaj who is also an employee of our company. While introducing Beth, we got to know that Beth carries thirty years of technology experience and she is CIO at SVB. For a moment I was surprised, because in technology industry it is very rear to see a woman in the top level/position and another reason being she looks so young.

Beth was answering the questions asked, in the processes of answering she shared her journey of life, challenges faced, decisions she made. She also mentioned that she was lucky and got wonderful support from her husband.

Support is all a woman need to grow up. People talk about gender equality is considered, women rights are concerned, etc. yet there is a lack of support for woman in her career growth. Many people are still in the opinion that a woman should be educated just to get a pass certificate and nothing more than that. If a woman gives confidence that she can manage both her work life as well as her personal life, does not she be given hearty support? In that matter I suggest not to the support the men/women who are completely involved in career and not concentrating on personal life.

Behind a successful man there is always a woman, why can’t “Behind a successful woman there be a man always”?

                                                                                                                    ……Shilpa