A decade ago, the only organisations that were producing women leaders in number were the banks. Today, it seems to be the turn of the FMCG sector to take up the mantle where the banks left off.The Corporate Dossier - Spencer Stuart listing of India Inc's Rising Women Leaders has names from consulting, law, pharma, but the largest number by far is from FMCG. Most of these are MNCs with a mandate to promote diversity.The Indian subsidiaries of companies like Unilever, P&G, Mondelez, Vodafone, Castrol and Pepsico have been working hard at developing women leaders for some time now and their efforts are finally yielding fruit. This will hopefully inspire other sectors to follow suit. Infosys, for one, has announced a target of having 25 per cent women in its leadership team."If companies like Infosys can take the lead on this matter and truly make it happen, it would add significantly to the overall push required," says Anjali Bansal, MD, Spencer Stuart India, one of the jury members who selected the 25 women featured in this issue.Another jury member, Deepak Satwalekar, former CEO of HDFC Standard Life Insurance says, "Other sectors need to make the effort. Men have begun to appreciate that women can do anything they can do."Our listing also features entrepreneurs and inheritors, a set that is likely to grow in the coming years. Traditions have changed and Indian business houses are now appointing the women in the family to top jobs.Internet startups, on the other hand, are bound by no tradition. They are also a draw for talented women executives, so the FMCG majors need to guard their flock.