Cars24 CEO Vikram Chopra has acknowledged a big gender imbalance throughout the firm, revealing that ladies account for less than 14% of its workforce in India and none at the moment maintain director-level roles.

In an in depth publish on X (previously Twitter), Chopra stated the corporate has 6,803 workers in India, of whom solely 951 are ladies, highlighting the stark disparity in gender illustration throughout the organisation.

“At Director stage (B6): zero ladies. Not low. Zero,” Chopra wrote, acknowledging the dearth of feminine illustration within the firm’s senior management ranks.

Chopra stated he had been reflecting on the numbers for a number of days and admitted that the problem goes past hiring on the entry stage.

Whereas Cars24 has seen enhancements in entry-level hiring of girls, he famous that many ladies drop out of the organisation as they transfer towards mid-management and senior management roles.

“We do rent ladies. Entry-level illustration is meaningfully higher. However someplace between mid-management and senior management, we lose them. That’s not a pipeline downside. That’s a system downside,” he stated.

The CEO additionally emphasised that organisational tradition performs a key position in shaping management illustration.

“Tradition just isn’t what you say in your careers web page. Tradition is who grows right here. Tradition is who will get promoted. Tradition is who stays,” Chopra wrote.

Acknowledging the structural challenges, Chopra stated the corporate would start partaking with senior ladies leaders from throughout industries to raised perceive the limitations stopping ladies from reaching management roles.

“So…Ladies’s Day, I’m doing one thing easy: listening,” he stated.

Notably, Chopra invited ladies leaders working in know-how, product, enterprise and different field-heavy environments to share their views on what structural adjustments are wanted for corporations like Cars24 to enhance illustration and management alternatives for girls.

“What would must be true so that you can critically contemplate an organization like ours? What makes a management tradition really feel enabling slightly than exhausting? What structural adjustments really transfer the needle — not simply on hiring, however on retention and promotion?” he requested.

The corporate plans to host small roundtables, each digital and in individual, with ladies leaders over the approaching weeks to collect insights and determine areas for change.

Chopra acknowledged the duty for addressing the problem, stating that the dearth of gender variety in management requires severe inner reflection.

“We can’t construct a category-defining firm if management seems like a slender slice of society. Gifted ladies shouldn’t simply be part of Cars24, they need to rise right here,” he wrote, including, “This one is on me.”