Gender diversity, inclusion not just ideal, but a strategic necessity for businesses: Industry
Indian IT industry has seen significant progress in gender diversity with more women now in entry and mid-level workforce. However, their fair representation at the top and male-dominated corporate boardrooms is still disproportionate and «needs a lot of work», according to tech leaders.
Any organisation which does not encourage, and indeed, proactively work towards equitable gender representation is unlikely to have a long business life span, even client acceptance, experts said adding companies need to offer flexi-scheduling and enable remote work options where needed, to support women juggling their professional responsibilities with their personal commitments and caregiver roles.
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«India is not doing bad when it comes to education for women. 29.5 per cent of engineers in our country today are women, which is phenomenal when compared to countries like Australia and the United Kingdom, which have women representation of 14.5 per cent and 16.9 per cent respectively,» said Ritesh Malik, founder of Innov8 Coworking.
CFO at BirlaSoft, Kamini Shah believes that the Indian IT
