At Dunzo, we have always aimed to equalize opportunities to facilitate a fair and liberated space to strengthen women and their talents. Our constant endeavor is to make the workplace a nurturing ground for healthy interactions, stimulative ideas, and collaborative efforts.
We take special pride in our formidable band of boss-women who’ve brilliantly grabbed the reins and steered our growth. Uninhibited and uncompromising, they’ve wonderfully excelled in their respective roles in an objective environment that values skill and rewards effort.
Here’s a glimpse of some of the many incredible women who’ve tipped the scales and forged the path to restore and maintain balance in the various facets of their lives.
MONICA KAMATH — Corporate Affairs
What she can get Dun:
Designing the CEO’s day is what she does. Monica is actively involved in planning and coordination with the org administration, leadership, business functions, investors and industry peers/PR folks.” Everybody wants a piece of KB(Kabeer Biswas) and I do my best to facilitate just that. If the frontend is CEO then backend is me”, she jokes.
What balance means to her:
It’s as much a woman’s responsibility to enable conventional “soft skills” in men as it is a man’s responsibility to enable “hard skills” in women. Only then can the need for distinction between soft/hard male/female can be eliminated
AVANTIKA GUPTA — Lead PM, Growth
What she can get Dun:
Avantika’s role primarily involves identifying opportunities to increase the transaction volume on the platform. She believes that being a woman in her roles means that user interactions are more fruitful. “Lot many folks pour their heart out, probably because women empathize better, or at least are assumed to empathize better unless proven otherwise”, she says.
What balance means to her:
“Although significant progress has been made and increasingly we’re seeing more and more women taking up blue collared jobs, it’s not good enough yet. One of the areas where balance is lacking is in ensuring a healthy gender ratio across teams, across roles, across levels. True balance can only be achieved when we see equal numbers across ranks.”
RUBINDER KAUR — Community Operations
What she can get Dun:
Rubinder mainly handles support services in community operations. Her job profile includes solving cases including Accident, abuse, misbehavior, sexual misconduct. She also is the designated POC for newly launched cities.”Being a woman in my role I sometimes get away with actions which my male colleagues would perhaps be taken to task for”, she reckons.
What balance means to her:
“ Balance means Freedom. It’s certainly reassuring to see that a few people are grasping the idea about bringing about balance in various aspects of life, but yet there is a lot left to be done. We still have a long way to go.”
SHIVANI AHUJA — DevOps Engineer
What she can get Dun:
Shivani’s job involves building architecture, solutions and scaling infrastructure for optimization and smoothly handling the traffic. “I see myself as a person in the tech role, not as a woman or a man. I’ve learned the right sense of decision making, flexibility, building solutions and have become more aware of my strengths and weaknesses.”, she says.
What balance means to her:
“If you’re developing software, it’s most likely going to be used by as many women and men. So, if there are only men developing the software, you’re going to miss out on quite some use cases and understanding of how people are going to use it. When there are conflict situations, it’s very unusual that that would be among mix groups. We seem to be programmed to get on better as a mixed group rather than all-male or all-female. Women are naturally better co-operators and communicators, so that’s an added advantage.”
AKSHITA DEHARWAL — Motion Graphic Artist
What she can get Dun:
Her job involves creating video animations for all media types. “As a woman, I am sensitive to seeing and understand things which others can’t see. Also, feel that the kind of empathy women can feel and express is what makes them different from men at the workplace.”, says Akshita.
What balance means to her:
“Everyone expects from a woman to have household skills like cooking. Even after marriage, a man has to concentrate mostly on his carrier, his job because ‘’this is a man’s job’’. Whereas for women, she is trained to take care of her family, cooking, doing all the work at home and then still has to keep up with her career as well. It’s like there is a race of equality but women have too many hurdles to reach the finish line. I think somewhere it’s improving. I believe that co-operative efforts will lead to much greater results and together, what men and women can achieve is limitless.”
