Ahead of International Women's Day on March 8, Forbes India has released a its "W - Power Trailblazers" issue this weekend, featuring 25 women stars, on the ascendency in business.
The 25 women stars included names like Chiki Sarkar, publisher, Juggernaut Books, Adhuna Bhabani, founder - director, Bblunt, Anupriya Acharya, CEO (India), Publicis Media, Kavitha Sairam, co - founder, FIB - SOL Life Technologies, Dina Wadia and Shivpriya Nanda, joint managing partners, J Sagar Associates among others.
"We need to specify that this is not a ranking but a qualitative selection - - a grouping of ground breakers, game - changers and innovators working across diverse sectors such as technology, law, banking, insurance, media, biotech and the startup sector, " Forbes India said in a statement.
"Mandated quotas smack of tokenism, and we have as many women who favour reservations as those who would like merit to be the decider, " said Brian Carvalho, Editor of Forbes India, referring to the lack of women on company boards.
"With the overwhelming response that we received for the first edition of W - Power last year, a second edition was imminent.
This issue is unique because of the methodology used in selection of the leaders.
We believe that this list cannot be ranked hence we adopt a qualitative approach, " said Joy Chakraborthy, CEO - Forbes India and President - Revenue, Network18.
The final list of 25 was identified based on jury votes.