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V-WA 50

The V-WA 50

An initiative by The Vedica Women’s Alliance (V-WA)

Women have made extraordinary contributions to their fields, across sectors and functions, often in the face of significant barriers to success. Yet, they are a minority in positions of leadership around the world. For these women to be made visible, we need to tell their stories, celebrate their achievements, and build a repository of role models that inspire generations of women to come.

The V-WA 50 is an initiative to recognise, reward, and replicate women's professional success. The awards will honour senior women professionals for their outstanding achievements and exemplary leadership.

Continuing Vedica's mission of making women visible, the V-WA 50 will celebrate their stories, spark change among peers, and inspire more women towards success.

And the award goes to…

  • 11 categories
  • 50 awards
  • Invaluable contributions

Recognising women in organisations that contribute to innovation in science and technology by offering solutions to business challenges and transforming lives and organisations. This includes information technology, product research and development, among other fields of technological and scientific research.

Recognising women across functions who have demonstrated leadership in manufacturing, including both consumer goods and heavy engineering industries, such as telecommunications, mining, energy, steel, and construction, among others.

Celebrating women in banking, financial services, venture capital and private equity, and financial management, whose leadership has created value for their organisation.

Acknowledging women who have demonstrated excellence in marketing and sales through the creation of tangible value for the organisation.

Awarding extraordinary women leaders across roles and functions in travel agencies and facilitators, airlines, and the hotel and restaurant industry, among others.

Celebrating leaders who have made significant contributions in hospital management, pharmaceuticals, public health, nutrition (not food products), and wellbeing, enabling us to lead better lives.

Celebrating women leaders, across sectors and functions, who have created a tangible impact on gender equality, supported women professionals, and advocated for inclusive policies and practices in their organisation.

Awarding women’s exemplary achievements in law, accounting, business advisory, management consulting, and architecture.

Recognising women achievers in the fashion and lifestyle industry, including apparel, beauty, luxury goods, accessories – across design, e-commerce, and physical retail.

Recognising women who have demonstrated achievement in the food and agriculture industry, including farming, agricultural equipment, fertilizers and pesticides, warehousing, food processing, dairy, bio-agriculture, and agtech, among others.

Recognising male leaders committed to equality who have supported women leaders and advocated for inclusive policies and practices in their organisation and industry.

Awarding exceptional leaders, with over 30 years of work experience, whose remarkable vision and achievements have left a lasting impact on their organisation, industry, and community over the span of their careers. There is no application process for this award and it will be based on recommendations from the jury.

Eligibility

  • The Women Leaders awards are open to senior women professionals in a leadership position with at least 12 years of total work experience.
  • Our Men of Impact award recognises male leaders with at least 10 years of work experience who have created a tangible impact in furthering gender diversity and inclusion.
  • You can apply for more than one category, based on either your functional role or your industry.
  • Nominations for the Lifetime Achievement Award are based on the jury’s recommendation.
Eligibility

The V-WA 50 Vision

...A Word From Our Founder

Supria-Dhanda

"Women are 50% of the population, make invaluable contributions in the world, and, increasingly, in their workplaces—but remain under-recognised and unsung. With V-WA 50, we are committed to changing this and ‘making women visible’. By presenting strong role models for the generations to come, we will set the wheels of change in motion, irreversibly."

Anuradha Das Mathur

Founder, The Vedica Women’s Alliance (V-WA) Founder & Dean, The Vedica Scholars Programme for Women

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2022 Awardees

Announcing the V-WA 50
Lifetime Achievement and Special Category Awards
To view the entire ceremony, please click here
V-WA 50 Felicitation Ceremony

Timeline

Applications close 30 April, 2022
Felicitation ceremony 3 June, 2022

About The Vedica Women’s Alliance (V-WA)

The Vedica Women’s Alliance (V-WA) is a first-of-its-kind initiative built to aggregate, advocate, and amplify the voices of women leaders from across the country and shape an ecosystem that helps women professionals thrive. V-WA hopes to grow the cadre of professional women - in terms of numbers and influence. Through peer learning sessions to foster ‘collective wisdom’, monthly issue-based briefings on specific ‘women and work’ issues, curated masterclasses with a unique focus on personal and professional transformation, high-quality research products and regular surveys with an aim to create new knowledge and create awareness, mentorship opportunities with a chance to build an influential professional network and direct engagement with government, industry and academy to shape policy for women and gender in the workforce, our member services will equip women professionals to pursue successful ‘break-free’ careers and become catalysts of change.

Contact Us

The Vedica Women’s Alliance (V-WA)

Address: Block A, Clarion Collection, Shaheed Jeet Singh Marg,
New Delhi - 110016, India

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V-WA:

Priya Lakshminarayanan: +91 9810781974

Mallika Anand: +91 9717671983

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