XLRI Centre For Gender Equality & Inclusive Leadership
The Xavier School of Management – XLRI’s Centre for Gender Equality and Inclusive Leadership (CGEIL) is based in XLRI’s Delhi NCR campus. The Centre has been founded to shape policy, guide actions, and support individuals, firms, and governments in enabling a more equitable and just society.
Concern with the escalating gender gap in India, as highlighted in the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report released in 2021, has been a key factor in founding the Centre. This trend is further exacerbated by India’s gender ratio of 92% (2% below global average) due to the issue of “missing girls” and disparate gender-specific access to healthcare. Faculty members of XLRI and its alumni came together to set the framework for the Centre, which was launched in 2021.
CGEIL’s focus is to empower livelihoods and employment opportunities on a gender neutral basis to further the cause of developing an equitable and just society. Taking further XLRI’s guiding motto of Excellence with Integrity, the Centre seeks to establish itself as a premier body collaborating with partner institutions, governments, and funding agencies to interweave the mindset, approach and habits that shall make realisation of Gender Equality and Inclusive Leadership a lived experience in all facets and arenas of society.
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Purpose
Thus, the Centre will aim to encourage and improve gender equality in the workforce, entrepreneurial participation of women across sectors and segments. To this end, three areas of intervention will form the Centre’s focus.
Structure
Effective August 2023, the Centre’s efforts are guided by a Board of Advisors (BoA) comprising eminent professionals, thought leaders, and practitioners across academia and research, corporates, government, and philanthropic organizations. Advisors serve a tenure of 3 years with 1/3rd Members retiring every other year. The BoA is designed to provide inputs on the Centre’s overall direction and to specific programs that the Centre implements, while enabling an appropriate supporting network of relevant stakeholders that lead to effective and visible advocacy by the Centre. The Centre’s BoA is headed by a Chairperson who serves the Centre over a 3 year tenure.
The Executive Officer leads and shoulders all operational responsibilities for the Centre, reporting to the Director, XLRI NCR.
Research Initiatives
- Undertake Studies, Research Projects and Reports focussing on areas such as credit offtake by women entrepreneurs, gender gap, pay parity, women leadership, access to rights and benefits across formal and informal work spaces.
- Industry & govt. Partnership to enable change in mindsets and action deep within society.
- Advocacy through participation in policy formulation in collaboration with global / national organizations.
- Awareness programs on Gender Equality and Inclusion customized for various stakeholders.
Teaching & Education
- Embed Modules on Gender Equality & Inclusive Leadership in higher education curricula.
- Mentoring & coaching initiatives.
- Supporting & facilitating collaboration initiatives with centres for Women’s studies in foreign and Indian Universities.
- Launch certified skill programs aimed to build social, financial & economic empowerment.
Field Programs
- Undertake capability building programs in partnership with government, funding agencies, and corporates for vulnerable communities.
- Advisory services to corporations and organizations.
- Design and Implement innovative programs to recognize, reward, nurture individuals and organizations working in these areas.
