At the India Today Conclave 2025, Avarna Jain, Vice Chairperson of Saregama, spoke about the role of women in the workforce and addressed the long-debated issue of pay parity in the music and entertainment industry. She stated that in creative fields, women are leading the way, and pay is determined by ability and capability, not gender.
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00In the industry that you are hands-on with,
00:05do you think enough has been done for women?
00:08Is there scope more to increase women in the workforce?
00:11So honestly in the creative space, I feel women are leading from the front.
00:17We recently did an acquisition with a company called Pocket Aces
00:20that manages influencers. That's led by a woman.
00:23So it's a very natural progression that in the creative space
00:26you have a lot of women who are up front and center.
00:30Yes, when you look at just actors, for example,
00:36and they form a large part of the industry,
00:38there's always a debate on pay parity and things like that.
00:41But I think that's a debate that sometimes happens across the board.
00:45However, I feel in media per se, if I look at saree kama,
00:50there is no discussion.
00:52The pay has nothing to do with if you're a woman or a man.
00:55It's about your ability, your capability and what position you're at.
00:59It's as simple as that.
01:00And a large part of our leadership team is women.