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\u201cDo you have any woman (other than you) working at managerial positions for Jinaam? What percentage would they be in comparison to the total staff? Sadly none, amongst the staff strength of over 500 employees\u201d is what Monika Ahluwalia Oswal, CEO – Global sales and marketing, Jinaam Dress Pvt Ltd and Director of Manndola, an online garments store, had to tell us when we asked her the question.<\/p>\n
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For an industry that thrives on the mere existence of the fairer sex, it\u2019s comes as quite a shocker that this multimillion industry has not many women entrepreneurs or decision makers to boast about. As a matter of fact, while working on this story, approaching a number of big textile houses in Surat made it further clear that the sex ratio in the textile industry of Surat is highly skewed. Matter of fact, she was the only woman that we came across in our quest of finding women decision makers in the industry.<\/p>\n
Not pointing fingers or raising questions about the quality or the standard of the industry, it seems quite hollow that India\u2019s biggest and one of the Asia\u2019s largest industries hasn\u2019t found a place yet for women to fit in.
\n\u201cIt’s a male driven industry, and things haven\u2019t changed much since the beginning. Also to add to that, the operations are quite traditional and rigid. Textile in Surat is still in sync with the old gaadi business and generations have carried the same forward\u201d, replied MoniKa when we asked her why there were fewer women in Surat\u2019s textile sector. This makes perfect sense. Textile industry in Surat has been hereditary since forever; every few decades the reigns of the industry are passed on from one generation to the other, but seldom has it happened that a textile house, irrespective of it being big or small, has had a queen regent than a king.<\/p>\n
\u201cBeing in textile you need to interact with all sectors and class of people which, is generally presumed, that women are uncomfortable with. But the point is, one wouldn\u2019t know what they or someone else is comfortable with until they really venture out and find it out for themselves\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
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If you are selling your products to women, doesn\u2019t it make more sense to have a woman sell it to her?<\/p>\n
As mentioned earlier, our agenda of this blog is not to point fingers or take names. Our aim is to talk about something, which hasn\u2019t been addressed yet, or quite arguably, is convincingly and easily overlooked. All that we want to do is start a dialogue, make people think, and make a difference. Not a drastic one but a difference that both the sexes coexist in the space.<\/p>\n
We take today to start this debate.<\/p>\n
A desire to experiment with the current conventions and a lot of faith in the changing times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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