More than 50% of men in India feel that there is an increased bias against women at the workplace, reports IANS citing a survey from Indian staffing firm TeamLease. The survey found that half of the male employees interviewed feel that there is an increase in gender bias against women in the last two years in spite of the implementation of Maternity Benefit Act. TeamLease found that 48% of male employees have attributed increasing gender bias as one of the biggest reasons for the loss of women at the workplace. Around 54% of the male respondents stated discrimination at workplace to be the root cause of women not progressing in their career. Similarly more than 28% of men felt that there is an increase in gender bias in the hiring stage itself.

Rituparna Chakraborty, Executive Vice President and Co-Founder, TeamLease Services, who was recently named to SIA’s Global Power 150 Women in Staffing, said, “It is very disturbing to know that even in today’s world women are treated differently. However, the only silver lining is that there is a growing realization amongst men that the regressive attitude and not talent that is pulling women folks down. As the saying goes, realization is the beginning of the change, now that there is a unanimous acceptance we are hopeful that the way women are treated both at the corporate world as well as in the society will undergo a transformation.”