Learn to Lead in a Male-Dominated Manufacturing Company


How I Learned to Lead in a Male-Dominated Manufacturing Company

by Miniya Chatterji

After living away from India for 14 years, I returned three years ago to create and take charge of the sustainability department of Jindal Steel & Power, one of India’s largest manufacturing business conglomerates.
I realized that in Indian business, power is still bafflingly associated with virility and manliness. Stereotypes dictate that women are not naturally accorded the same power as men, even in similar leadership roles. And ironically, in a country where one million people will turn 18 every month for the next several years, being 60 is still one of the essential criteria for being considered for a leadership position. Here I was a woman leader, half the age of my peers, in a fast-growing company in which a mere 3.5% were women. Not only did I have to establish the vision for the company’s sustainability — holistic growth of the company is how we defined it — but also gain the trust and active support across the company to implement the changes needed.

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