Women asked to challenge the stereotype:

High Heels and High Expectations

On the recently concluded International Women's Day, commemorated on 8 March, Standard Chartered Bank and CIMA Sri Lanka joined forces to host some of Sri Lanka's business women and young entrepreneurs to a high value program that encouraged women to challenge the stereotype! Held at the CIMA Sri Lanka Auditorium the session also included a very informative session on woman entrepreneurship by Manjiri Jakhotiya, a Senior Consultant with Jakhotiya and Associates, Mumbai, India.

The evening session was hosted by one of Sri Lanka's leading Power Women herself, Aruni Goonetilleke, Country Risk Head for Standard Chartered Bank.

The session titled, High Heels and High Expectations provided an in-depth understanding of the real situation for working women in Sri Lanka and an insightful glimpse of the evolving role of the corporate woman; the challenges she needs to over come in order to reclaim and reclassify the rightful space that a woman should own in society.