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If we go by this year’s theme of International
Women’s day promoting equity, then that is

something we need to work on to create an

inclusive workforce in the traffic/transport
segment. Not that there are not enough

opportunities or openings, it is just that enough
efforts are not made to create awareness about

the career paths that can be worked around right
from traffic management to supervising the road

construction sites. In India, we do have women

who lead traffic technology companies, do
road related research, engage in town planning,

drive trucks/buses & autos or work as transport
administrators. Talking to Mangala Chandran are

women leaders from different transport related
functions – Madhu Meenakshi Karthikeyan,

Managing Director, DataCorp Traffic who has

inherited business acumen from her grandfather;
Dr. Ambika Behl, Senior Principal Scientist, Flexible

Pavement Dept, CSIR-Central Road Research
Institute & Minimol Korulla Jacob, Head - Strategic

Initiatives & Strategic Projects - ISEAP (India,
South East Asia& Pacific) Region, Maccaferri,

both primarily into research in pavement

technology, (yet mostly on site, supervising the
work in progress); and Sonal Shah, Founder of

Urban Catalysts. This year the organisation was
recognised by the German government for

catalysing gender-equitable mobility systems.

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