Women Matters Archives - BD Foundation

How diversity as an idea is evolving

by Sarika | Nov 1, 2018 | BD Voice, Gender, Inclusion, Inclusion Champions, Inclusion Matters, Leadership, Woman of Influence, Women Matters

“Mom, we won the match!” shouted my 12-year-old son as he got home from school. “Akshi was too cool. She took the last goal in the last 4 minutes to spare”. I was pleasantly surprised to hear him raving about his teammate who is a girl playing in his school soccer...

Dream Big and Achieve

by Ranjana | Aug 31, 2018 | Change Makers, Empowerment, Gender, Inclusion, Inspirational Women, Leadership, Personal Development, Professional Development, Woman of Influence, Women Matters

The resignation of PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi in early August was kind of unexpected and this leaves us with a huge void which can’t be filled up. This takes the count of Women CEO’s leading Fortune 500 companies to 23 which is less than 5%, down from 32 female CEO’s...

The Cost of Silence

by Sarika | Aug 31, 2018 | BD Voice, Change Makers, Empowerment, Every Day Heroes, Gender, Inclusion Matters, Inspirational Women, Safety, Woman of Influence, Women Matters

For past few days, I had been deeply disturbed by the horrific stories of young girls being raped by the very people who were supposed to be their guardians in the shelter. More disturbing was the fact that many people knew about this, in fact, heard their screams but...

Success in Competitive Chaos : The Tennis Champ/ Serena Williams

by Shilpi Singh | Jul 18, 2018 | Empowerment, Gender, Inspirational Women, Leadership, Mentoring Matters, Woman of Influence, Women Matters

Tennis superstar Serena Williams had a message for mothers after her loss at Wimbledon: “I was playing for you today.” In an interview after the game, her voice quivering, Williams told mothers that she was playing for them at Wimbledon and they can...

Kick Off – First Batch L.E.A.P. 2018- Women Mentorship Program- Reflections and Insights

by nikita | Jul 11, 2018 | Change Makers, Events, Gender, Mentoring Matters, Our Projects, Past Events Synopsis – Delhi, Past Events Synopsis – Mumbai, Professional Development, Woman of Influence, Women Matters

“Mentoring is the biggest tool which can support and step up women in their professional aspirations” L.E.A.P. @ BD Mentoring At BD Foundation, we are guided by the same philosophy and believe that mentoring is a critical path to leadership. Mentoring becomes an...

Twitter Chat- 28 June 2018- Reflections and Insights

by nikita | Jul 2, 2018 | Events, Gender, Past Events Synopsis – Delhi, Past Events Synopsis – Mumbai, Safety, Woman of Influence, Women Matters

Our recently conducted Twitter Chat on, “Women safety and its impact on economic progress” was an insightful and constructive dialogue with 3 remarkable champions of women safety and women rights, Elsa Marie D’Silva, Founder and CEO Safecity, Sarika Bhattachharya,...