Leila Pourhashemi On Being A Woman In Tech & The Need To Embrace Diversity As Competitive Advantage
I had been affected deeply by being a woman in technology, sometimes being the only woman in a large meeting.
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Kavitha Gopal First Girl To Bag ‘President Of India Prize’ At IIT Madras
Kavitha Gopal also receives two other honours — the Bharat Ratna M. Visvesvaraya Memorial Prize and the B. Ravichandran Memorial Prize for the highest CGPA in B. Tech CSE.
Greece’s Shipping Industry Gets Its First Woman 1st Engineer
Shipping is one of those industries which have the lowest number of women in the workforce. An inadequate number of female seafarers clearly shows that very little has been done to encourage women in taking up seafaring careers. The scene is not much better in Greece, which has been a maritime nation since ancient times. […]
First Woman PWD Engineer Of South Mumbai Division Suspended
The first woman executive engineer of public works department’s south Mumbai division, Pradnya Walke, was suspended on Monday (April 2) for alleged dereliction of duty. Women officers, including Walke, have been handling all key assignments in PWD across Mumbai since a year. Ashish Kumar Singh, principal secretary (public works department), told TOI that Walke was suspended […]
Tech Firms In India Have Only 26% Women Engineers, Survey
It is a known fact that globally there is a dearth of women engineers. However, according to a recent survey undertaken by Belong on ‘the gender gap in the tech industry in India’ there are only 34 per cent women in the engineering workforce of IT sector. These numbers further reinforce how powerfully big the […]
IITs to Hike Female Student Enrollment to 20 % by 2020
In a bid to raise the number of girl students in the IITs, the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has introduced a four-pronged formula aimed at increasing the ratio of girl students in IITs from 8% to 20% by 2020-2021. The MHRD sent out a letter to all the IITs on July 28. The […]
Angela Saini’s New Book Challenges Sexism in The Field Of Science
Angela Saini credits her egalitarian upbringing and father in particular for being able to study engineering at university. A science journalist and author her new book Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong and the New Research That’s Rewriting The Story looks at how over centuries women have been constantly discriminated against when they have aspired […]
Gendered Toys Hinder Engineering Career for Girls: Study
Research shows that girls have a lot of interest in the STEM subjects at school, but are not necessarily translating their interests into STEM-related careers. Are gender-based toys to blame?
