Airports Authority of India, with 137 airports across the length of breadth of the country, provides challenging and fulfilling opportunities to
women employees. Women constitute some 15 percent of the total workforce of AAI and as a sensitive public sector undertaking, AAI has been taking sincere steps towards not only maintaining gender diversity in the organisation but also entrusting females with the leadership positions. Considering shortage of firefighters due to expansion and new airports coming up, AAI brought in the contemporary rules and decided to recruit women in this field in the year 2018, which required criteria for physical standards. While relaxing the norms, the work description for woman firefighters were exactly the same. Today, AAI is proud to have three women firefighters, effectively doing the job which was once considered men’s domain Being the largest airport operator in the country, AAI takes its strength from its women leaders. They are moving up the ladder and heading significant domains ranging from airport operations to engineering, air traffic control and fire services
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