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preferred actively hiring women, Kapur from Quint said she had a gender-neutral approach while recruiting talent.

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preferred actively hiring women, Kapur from Quint said she had a gender-neutral approach while recruiting talent.

"I am pretty much gender neutral. When you're building anything, you want to bring out the best, bring out the right perspective and have a diversity of voices. So am I looking at saying I have clocked so many men so now I must clock so many women? No.

"As it happens, at last count 70 per cent of my team is made up of women. And it is not that I must go out and get women. I am not being gender neutral but talent-hungry. We have a diversity not only in terms of gender but also geographical and more," Kapur said.

Butalia however said that it was not enough to be gender neutral but that she would actively recruit women, and be gender-inclusive and in favor of women, while calling for feminism being the principle on which organizations operate.

Another session titled 'Women along the faultlines' put the spotlight on women scribes reporting from the front lines.A performance by comedian Radhika Vaz, and a workshop by eminent artistic director Gaurav Saini were also held.

'A Manel of Feminists: Why they must join the fight' saw a panel of men including Prithvi Shergill, Chief HR officer HCL Technologies, Raheel Khursheed, Head of News Partnerships Twitter India and South-east Asia, Sattvik Mishra, CEO ScoopWhoop, highlighting the gender imbalances and stereotypes that need to be fixed to throw up new possibilities for both men and women.

A session focusing on the stereotype that women don't have a head to earn money, witnessed a discussion on the need for women to be able to manage their finances.

"The first step women need to take is to stop saying I don't have enough money," said Monika Halan, consulting editor at Mint, adding that there was an urgent need to invest money to see growth in the future.

An interactive session titled 'Ask your Publisher: Open House with India's top commissioning Editors' saw Renuka Chatterjee (Speaking Tiger), Poulomi Chatterjee (Hachette), Sudha Sadanand (Westland) and Sivapriya R (Juggernaut) addressing questions on how they pick manuscripts to the advantages of self-publishing and the role of digitisation in the publishing space.

A performance by musician and writer Vidya Shah titled 'Bas Tu Hii: The Feminine in the Mystic', and a jam session by the Delhi Drum Circle, brought the event to a close yesterday.

 

(This article has not been edited by DNA's editorial team and is auto-generated from an agency feed.)

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