Women in Tech

With women making up barely 25% of the workers in the Tech industry, I fear and feel concerned about it, yet at the same time I hold a strong intuition about the woman taskforce in general, as to what can they deliver at their workplace, tech / non tech regardless; and how the future looks promising from here.

I will stick to Technology though in my narrative, as I come from that space and have worked with some really sharp and adroit women (Coders, Testers, Designers, Product Managers, you name it.) in previous jobs and the current
one.

While this disparity (around the 25% stats I mentioned) is obviously unjustified knowing that Ada Lovelace, Grace Hopper, Hedy Lamarr had proved their Computer Science / Technology mettle in the past justifying and exemplifying the idea (read as right) of more women inclusion in the industry (while some of the men counterpart were still unsure of joining the forces); though of course the world has heard of more men doing wonders in Tech (and the reasons are an invitation to polemics and heated debates, hence I shall abstain from indulging into that). To be honest, the word ‘inclusion’ in itself is matter of concern, since it establishes a pre-conceived notion around a certain sect of individuals, that they are originally supposed to be kept excluded.

In fact, when we switch the focus to Indian landscape; you look at eminent Roshni Nadar Malhotra (Chairperson, HCL Technologies), Falguni Nayar(Nykaa), Debjani Ghosh(NASSCOM) — all famous reputed leaders in the Indian Tech / E-commerce ecosystem. Though another significant concerning stats that hits us hard there is that only 11% leadership roles being held by women. Then by the law of “disputed corporate idiosyncrasies” the select few who make it till the leadership are the ones who were promoted (read as allowed) which wouldn’t have been a taxing job for their management as they had to choose few from the already few. Albeit, the organizations try their best to establish women inclusion in their middle, senior, executive management tiers, which in my opinion triggers angst in their male counterparts because they have to defeat more competitors Vs what the women have to.

If there is an equal proportion of male and female employees in an organization (specially Tech) right from the zeroth level; there would always be a fair and undisputed race to leadership. And a disturbing notion still held for women in some organizations, around their less learning and adaptive capabilities when juxtaposed with males is a matter of clear defiance when looked at biologically (in addition to real performance based chronicles out their in the world) since the woman’s hippocampus, critical to learning and memorization, is larger than a man’s and works differently.

There is a lot more that can be done by women in Tech.
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