UN Sustainable Development Goal 5: Gender Equality

SDG 5: Gender Equality

UPES report · 3. Women at work

3Women at work

UPES develops women leaders among its staff and supports working parents.

Impact

UPES builds women leaders among its own staff and makes it easier to combine work and family.

9 monthsof leadership training in each Shakti cohort
12women faculty and managers in the fourth Shakti cohort
2creches, one on each campus, for staff and students
  • Super Shakti prepares women employees for business management and leadership roles.
  • Women in housekeeping and other Class IV roles learn English, digital skills and their legal rights.
  • The recruitment policy bans discrimination by gender, marital status or sexual orientation.
  • Shakti leadership programme. Women employees receive nine months of training in adaptive skills, emotional intelligence, business communication and team management to prepare for leadership roles. The fourth cohort trained 12 women faculty members and managers.
  • Super Shakti. From December 2024 to June 2025, this programme for women employees who want to grow into business management and leadership roles helped participants identify their strengths, build key competencies and confidence, with sessions led by Padmaja Korde, Roshni Patel, Yoshita Swarup Sharma, Sandeep Jain and Vansh Chopra.
  • Who took part. In 2024–25, Super Shakti modules each trained 3 women faculty members and 4 women staff, and a Shakti refresher trained 6 faculty and 4 staff, alongside UPES's wider UDAAN, LEAP, SPARX, SOAR and Disha development programmes.
  • Project Swavalamban. Class IV women employees, including housekeeping staff, learn English, digital skills and communication, and about their legal rights and health.
  • Creches on both campuses. Child-friendly creches on the Bidholi and Kandoli campuses support staff and students with young children.
  • Fair recruitment. The Recruitment and Selection Policy bans discrimination by gender, marital status or sexual orientation, among other grounds.
Women employees of the Super Shakti programme in matching blue shirts pose outdoors on campus
The Super Shakti cohort, 2024–25.
Super Shakti participants pose together in a campus lounge
Super Shakti participants during a session.
Shakti 4 participants and trainers gather for a group photo outside a campus building
Shakti 4 participants with their trainers.
The play area of the creche on the Bidholi campus
The creche on the Bidholi campus.