An Inquiry Into Women Representation in Management: A Case Study of Indian Industries

Samapti Guha is Professor at the Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, School of Management and Labour Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, India. She is a Development Economist and has done her PhD in Economics from Jadavpur University, India, in 2004. She worked as a researcher in the area of microfinance and development economics in reputed institutions such as Indian Institute of Dalit Studies, New Delhi, and Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA), Gujarat, India. In 2006, she was selected as Sir Ratan Tata Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK, for her post-doctoral study. In 2007, she joined TISS and launched a new MA programme in Social Entrepreneurship; she also managed the Centre for Social Entrepreneurship till 2010. Her areas of research are microfinance, women workforce including managers, social entrepreneurship, women entrepreneurship and financial inclusion. She has published more than 30 articles in national, international journals and chapters in books. She has published two edited volumes on 'Technology and Innovation for Social Change' (2015) and 'In Search of Business models in Social Entrepreneurship' (2021) with Springer. She has attended several national and international conferences and delivered key notes, expert talk and research articles.

Sanskruti Kadam is Dean/Head of Department, Sasmira's Business School, Mumbai, India. She has nearly two decades of experience in teaching, education and research, capacity building, advocacy and field action in broad areas of HRM, social science and development, gender studies and inclusive education. She obtained her PhD from Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, India, and has double Masters -- Master of Commerce (M.Com), Master of Human Resource Development and Management (MHRDM) both from the University of Mumbai, India. With her wide experience in community-based research using qualitative and mixed methodology research approaches, she has contributed to a deeper and more nuanced understanding of the social and gender dimensions of a range of issues concerning women career development and wellbeing of women, youth and vulnerable populations. She has published several research papers in peer reviewed journals on topics covering HRM, re-branding HR, women empowerment, gender diversity et.al. She has also worked for fully sponsored research projects in the area of gender studies supported by Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR). She is Head of Research Committee and also the PhD Centre affiliated with University of Mumbai and SNDT Women's University at SASMIRA. She has been awarded with Best Paper Award for her research paper presented at National Research Conference organized by Mumbai University. Her research interest areas are - human resource management and development, general management, gender studies and diversity & inclusion.

Samapti Guha是印度孟買塔塔社會科學研究所（TISS）管理與勞工研究學院社會企業中心的教授。她是一位發展經濟學家，於2004年在印度賈達普爾大學獲得經濟學博士學位。她曾在印度達利特研究所和古吉拉特邦安納德農村管理學院等知名機構從事微融資和發展經濟學領域的研究工作。2006年，她被選為倫敦政治經濟學院的薩爾拉坦塔研究員，進行博士後研究。2007年，她加入了TISS並開設了一個新的社會企業碩士課程；她還管理了社會企業中心直到2010年。她的研究領域包括微融資、包括經理在內的女性勞動力、社會企業、女性企業家精神和金融包容。她在國內外期刊上發表了30多篇文章和書籍章節。她與Springer合作出版了兩本編輯的專著，分別是《科技和創新促進社會變革》（2015年）和《尋找社會企業模式》（2021年）。她參加了多個國內外會議，並發表了主題演講、專家講座和研究文章。

Sanskruti Kadam是印度孟買Sasmira商學院的院長/系主任。她在教學、教育和研究、能力建設、倡導和社區行動等廣泛領域擁有近20年的經驗，包括人力資源管理、社會科學和發展、性別研究和包容性教育。她在印度孟買的塔塔社會科學研究所獲得博士學位，並擁有孟買大學的商業碩士（M.Com）和人力資源發展與管理碩士（MHRDM）學位。憑藉她在使用質性和混合方法研究進行基於社區的研究的廣泛經驗，她對於關於女性職業發展和婦女、青年和弱勢群體福祉的一系列問題的社會和性別維度有更深入、更細緻的理解。她在同行評審期刊上發表了多篇研究論文，涵蓋人力資源管理、重新定位人力資源、婦女賦權、性別多樣性等主題。她還參與了由印度社會科學研究委員會（ICSSR）支持的性別研究領域的全資助研究項目。她是研究委員會主任，也是與孟買大學和SNDT女子大學合作的博士研究中心的負責人。她曾因在孟買大學舉辦的全國研究會議上發表的研究論文獲得最佳論文獎。她的研究興趣包括人力資源管理和發展、綜合管理、性別研究和多樣性與包容性。