Regardless of this constructive growth, it highlights the substantial floor that also must be coated to bridge the variety hole within the trade. With solely 6.7% of ladies in government roles in GCCs and 5.1% in deep tech organisations, there’s a appreciable lower within the out there expertise pool of ladies as they transfer up the profession ladder. In GCCs, on the senior stage (9-12 years of expertise), the illustration stands at 15.7%, the report mentioned.
India has practically 1,600 GCCs. In 2022-23, GCCs added 2.8 lakh staff, taking its expertise base to over 1.6 million. The report acknowledged that household and caregiving duties, restricted entry to profession development and alternatives, and poor work-life stability are some elements influencing girls’s attrition.
“Whereas India proudly leads within the variety of girls STEM graduates globally, their under-representation within the deep tech workforce stems from systemic limitations hindering their schooling and profession development. To unlock the complete potential of our expertise pool, we have to take a complete strategy, together with strategic actions to extend the enrolment of ladies in main technological establishments and retaining them within the workforce,” mentioned Ajeya Motaganahalli, VP of engineering and MD, India R&D at Pure Storage.
The median illustration of ladies graduates from prime engineering universities stands at 25% between 2020-23, which straight impacts the influx of feminine candidates in GCCs, particularly within the deep tech sector. Regardless of this disparity in girls’s illustration, girls graduates persistently outperformed in securing placements in comparison with the general common in top-tier universities.
“Development in any trade is stagnant with out fairness. Whereas deep tech has pushed the boundaries of chance, the sobering fact is that the sector has solely 5.1% girls on the government stage. Interventions to unravel the expertise pipeline difficulty and create work environments enabling girls to thrive have turn into an pressing necessity,” mentioned Karthik Padmanabhan, managing accomplice at tech advisory agency Zinnov.
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