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The survey, on gender diversity in Indian higher education, was put together for ET by executive search and strategic recruitment firm EduShine Search Partners. While the proportion of women academic leaders has been inching up—6.67% (54 out of 810) in 2015, and 9.56% (110 out of 1,151) in 2021—it still compares poorly compared to the US, Australia and the UK, where on an average a quarter of institutions have women leaders.
Even countries like Brazil (47.3%) and South Africa (23%) have better representation of women compared to India, the study said. Globally, 25% of the top 200 universities are headed by female leaders. Ironically, it’s the institutions of national importance that are lagging the rest on this aspect.
Only 8.53% of the institutions of national importance (14 out of 164) — including the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) — have a woman in the top job, the report found. Among the 120 premier engineering institutions consisting IITs, IIITs, NITs, and IISER, only two (one NIT and one IIIT, both at Tiruchirappalli) are headed by female leaders. Not a single IIT was found to be headed by a woman leader in the 2024 survey — Preeti Aghalayam is the directorin-charge of the Zanzibar campus of IIT Madras.
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