This International Women’s Day, Capgemini reiterates its commitment towards gender diversity with a focus on its key gender balance initiatives.
Capgemini wants to be recognized worldwide as a responsible company using its expertise for positive impact as they are ‘Architects of Positive Futures’.
“It shapes how the company works with its customers, partners, suppliers and colleagues globally to create greater opportunities for sustainable business and affirms their status as an employer of choice,” the company said in a press statement.
“Gender diversity is a critical priority for Capgemini to ensure it creates a sustainable pipeline of the best available talent and increase women representation at senior levels. To support this priority, the company runs various interventions,” the statement added.
Diversity ratio in India at Capgemini is close to 38%.
Some of Capgemini’s key gender balance initiatives are: fareWelcome! – fareWelcome! programme is designed to support women colleagues during the maternity phase – assist in transition from office to maternity leave, help stay connected with the organisation and colleagues during the maternity break and ease ‘back to work’ transition process. This program is also availed by women who adopt and new mothers through surrogacy.
Women Sponsorship Program – It is a step towards building a pipeline of women leaders for future roles who are willing to take their career to the next level through sponsorship and advocacy of senior leaders.
CAPtivate – CAPtivate is Capgemini’s Career Comeback initiative to support female professionals who want to make a transition back into the workforce. As part of its exclusive, women-only campaign, resumes are invited from women—currently on a career break—who are looking to get back to their careers.
In 2020, out of the total career comebacks who joined Capgemini nearly 50% were women.
WiTI (Women in Tech India) – WiTI (Women in Tech India) is an initiative to provide the company’s women colleagues (in mid-level), a platform to showcase and strengthen their skills, develop newer technical competencies, be more intentional about their careers and learn from their role models.
“At Capgemini, the company has ambitious goals that can be achieved with a strong gender-balanced pipeline of leaders. It is committed to investing in learning opportunities and also believe that grooming talent needs to start early. It is imperative that they create an environment that helps their women colleagues to have a long, successful career with them,” the statement said.
In line with this the company has various mentoring interventions such as: SPEED Mentoring and W2RT (a NASSCOM Program) to name a few.
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