Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. Musings from someone who sees stories everywhere.

Thursday, December 18, 2008

new vistas for women in India's IT industry

I recently attended a session on women in leadership organised by NASSCOM, India's premier trade body for the IT industry. Education is now spreading to women in small town India. An increasing number of women are being recruited by the IT industry at the entry level. However, studies show that many of these women do not reach the top positions for various reasons. Changes in life situation such as marriage, children and relocating with the family to another town, are some of the reasons for breaks in the careers of these well-qualified women.
The tremendous potential of women in the workforce can be best tapped not just with changes and the right noises at the corporate level. There is a wider and more far reaching need for social change.
Read the full published article
here

5 comments:

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Surat said...

Very nice written blog madam

Wow Gold said...

very nice blog

All Is Whole said...

I agree that managing a whole family is as big as managing a organization because both of them consumes your time and can't be done efficiently at same time.

Smiles :)
Prashant

monideepa sahu said...

Thanks for dropping by, Prashant Pacifier. Managing both family and an organisation can indeed be done very efficiently at the same time. the more one manages, the better one learns to cope and prioritise. IMHO it's using one's capabilities and watching them grow.