Gender Diversity: HR News, Trends & Workplace Insights

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Updated on: Apr 2025
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Festive Season Hiring; India Inc Prioritizes Gender Diversity
Employment

Festive Season Hiring; India Inc Prioritizes Gender Diversity

India Inc, in its pursuit of fostering gender diversity, is now extending its efforts to temporary hiring during peak periods, especially the festive season. Sectors such as e-commerce, logistics, retail, hospitality, manufacturing, consumer durables, banking, financial services, and insurance (BFSI) are actively embracing this trend. Companies recognize the value of having more women workers in […]

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1 in 3 LGBTQI+ Workers: Career Impacted by Identity
Survey & Report

1 in 3 LGBTQI+ Workers: Career Impacted by Identity

Despite significant progress to foster more inclusive workplaces over recent decades, 41% of LGBTQI+ workers say they have faced discrimination or prejudice at work, and a third (33%) believe that their sexuality or gender identity has negatively affected their career, remuneration, or progression (35%). Over a third (36%) reported that they have been less motivated […]

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Corporates focus on gender diversity, to hire more women in 2023
Industry

Corporates focus on gender diversity, to hire more women in 2023

Corporate India has been hiring women professionals focusing on gender diversity. It is expected that companies will hire more women in 2023. According to a survey conducted by Burgundy Private, a private banking business of Axis Bank and Hurun India, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has more female employees than any company in India. This is the second edition […]

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Tata Steel hosts QUEERious contest for LGBTQIA+ students
Industry

Tata Steel hosts QUEERious contest for LGBTQIA+ students

Tata Steel QUEERious contest is a first-of-its-kind case study competition in India, which aims to enable students from the LGBTQIA+ community to participate in the inclusion of LGBTQIA+ in the corporate world, by sharing a plethora of ideas and bringing new perspectives of inclusion in the workplace. QUEERious is a one-of-its-kind platform that offers opportunities […]

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Tata Motors, Hero, MG accelerate gender diversity on shop floors
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Tata Motors, Hero, MG accelerate gender diversity on shop floors

Women are storming the male bastion in automotive manufacturing harder as firms like Tata Motors, MG Motor, Hero MotoCorp, and Bajaj Auto accelerate the drive for gender diversity on shop floors. Tata Motors, which currently has over 3,000 women operating on its shop floors across its six plants in India in different roles for production […]

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Tata Steel competition for LGBTQ+ students last date 15 July
Industry

Tata Steel competition for LGBTQ+ students last date 15 July

Indian multinational steel-making company Tata Steel is organizing QUEERious’s first-of-its-kind competition in India for students of the LGBTQ+ community only. The challenge will enable the students to participate in the inclusion of LGBTQ+ in the corporate world by sharing their ideas and engaging in a live internship with Tata Steel. […]

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Accenture Getting to Equal: Visible Growth, Invisible Fears Survey
Survey & Report

Accenture Getting to Equal: Visible Growth, Invisible Fears Survey

For instance, prior to 2001 same-sex marriage was not legal in a single country; today it is legal in 29 countries. And on the career front, Accenture conducted a survey on more than 28,000 employees in organizations across 26 countries revealing that at the global level. LGBT+ employees are just as likely as others to […]

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55% of Indian companies struggle to find skilled LGBTQ+ developers
Survey & Report

55% of Indian companies struggle to find skilled LGBTQ+ developers

According to the survey, about 55 percent of Indian company recruiters struggle to find skilled developers from the LGBTQ+ work group. TechGig’s survey also asked about the popular mediums to hire these developers, and most (52% of respondents) said that they turn to regular job boards and sites to hire LGBTQ+ developers. According to ‘Gender […]

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