Episode 13- Gender roles, women in sports and the corporate world. (feat. Rashi Kakkar)

In Conversation with Ashwin

On the show, we discuss Rashi’s journey of vagabonding across different cities in India as an army kid and how that helped her to embrace change and even thrive in it. We discuss how the army life exposed her to sports early in her life, her tennis adventures and why she decided not to pursue a career in sports. We get her take on women and gender diversity in the corporate and sports arena. We talk gender conditioning and how it is important, yet difficult, for women to be unapologetic about pursuing their ambitions. How women can and should be helped to become great sportswomen. Rashi’s definition of ‘progressive thinking’ and her gratitude towards her family for being progressive. Her push on ‘What would you with your life if you weren’t afraid?’ To close, we discuss her favourite books and her dog Bruce who has an Instagram handle of his own (Whether you listen to the podcast or not, you must take a look at Bruce. As Rashi says, in our conversation- He is a happy ball of fur).
You can find Rashi on-
Rashi’s articles on Firstpost- https://www.firstpost.com/author/rashikakkar
Twitter- @rashi_kakkar
Rashi was identified as a stereotype defying candidate by a top MBA blog, Poets & Quants
https://poetsandquants.com/2016/08/31/introducing-mba-class-2018/15/
Books-
Lean in
Why Nations fail
Sapiens
Man on a high castle
Harry Potter