'Women Wizards Rule Tech' programme for women techies
Information Technology (IT) industry.
- The programe is called 'Women Wizards Rule Tech'.
- The programme was announced in March 2018 at Nasscom Diversity and Inclusion Summit in Chennai as joint initiative by Nasscom Sector Skills Council and Data Security Council of India.
- Senior Director of Nasscom Ashok Pamidi in a statement has said "This programme is designed to support women who are moving up the career ladder, while also paving the way for potential leaders of the future".
- As per the Director, this iniative aims at equipping women with the skills required for an edge in their career and aid women techies in core technologies like IT-Information Technology Enabled Services (ITES), Business Process Management (BPM), product and research and development (R&D) sectors.
- Among the other attendees that graced the occasion were Nasscom President Debjani Ghosh and Biocon Chairperson Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw.
- It must be noted that a report by Nasscom on "Women and IT Scorecard - India" launched earlier this year predicted that policies towards flexible work, work-from-home, parental leave, healthcare and anti-harassment will increase the number of women in senior level at IT firms from 20 per cent to 60 per cent.
A look at what NASSCOM is:
- NASSCOM stands for National Association of Software and Services Companies.
- NASSCOM is global non-profit trade association (organisation) of Indian Information Technology (IT) and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry.
- It facilitates business and trade in software and services and encourages the advancement of research in software technology.
- It is registered under the Indian Societies Act, 1860. Its headquarters are in New Delhi.
- It has regional offices in Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kochi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Pune and Thiruvananthapuram.
- The global IT trade body has over 2000 members, of which over 250 are companies from the China, EU, Japan, US and UK.
- NASSCOM’s member companies are in the business of software development, software services, software products, IT-enabled/BPO services and e-commerce.
