Success measured by professionalism

CHENNAI: Success is measured by professionalism rather than sex and it is demeaning to get a job on the basis of being a woman, according to Aruna Jayanthi, who is ranked fourth in the 50 most powerful Indian Women by Fortune India Magazine. Delivering the inaugural address of Madras Management Association’s Women Managers’ Convention 2012, the Capgemini chief executive officer urged the women to think and act like professionals.She said it is demeaning to get a job only on the basis that you are a woman. “You got the job because you are competent,” she said, adding that she opposes reservation for women. Jayanthi said the entry level should have the right amount of diversity but as one goes up the ladder, he or she should be promoted only on the merit basis.She said that companies that have women as board members, are doing well and added that now there is a bid by companies to have at least 20 per cent women as board members.US Consul General in Chennai Jennifer McIntyre, in her keynote address, said that women are key to global economy and hailed the contributions of Indra Nooyi, chairman and chief executive officer of PepsiCo, and chairman and managing director of Biocon Kiran Mazumdar Shaw. She also said that it is expected that women entrepreneurs will create five million to 5.5 million jobs around the world.