More women engineers can create indirect jobs'

More women need to come to the software engineering workforce, which would ensure more indirect job creation, says a Nasscom executive.

Devni, who is also an entrepreneur running Startupfreak, believes that with more women coming to the workforce, the chances of creating more indirect jobs- from maids to nurses would go up considerably.

This comes at a time when number of women employees in the $155 billion IT industry has gone up to 34 per cent, as companies seek to improve their gender diversity ratio but continue to struggle retaining top management women employees. According to NASSCOM report, the percentage of women working in the sector has gone up from 28 per cent in the 2016 fiscal to 34 per cent in the 2017 fiscal. Additionally, nearly 51 per cent of firms will have more than 20 per cent of women at C-suite or top management levels, according to the report.

Devni comes from Gulbarga, a tier II city and opines that more women engineers should join the workforce as the onslaught of automation has created a lot ill feeling amongst communities. “Women have empathy strong emotional intelligence skills, and are better in taking people along rather than the command-and-control strategy followed by men,” Devni said.

Her assertions are supported by the fact that according to UK-based Chartered Management Institute in 2018, work world will see a stronger demand for female management skills, which, in turn will help them move up the corporate ladder.

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