Women in Technology
Aren’t women equal?
‘Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one’s own person is its ultimate reward’, says Patricia Sampson, CEO, and president of The Sampson Group, Inc., a management development and strategic planning consulting business.
IT or Information Technology industry is the major industry that employs coders for software development. But it is more male-centric. We need more women coders in start-ups and more women entrepreneurs who can employ other women through their start-ups. Not just the IT industry, there are various other technology-based industries like the communication sector, the automobile sector, the biotechnology and biomedical sector, etc., to name a few where women are represented in low numbers.
Women have been excelling in a lot of fields, be it sports, entertainment, and culture, as industrialists, entrepreneurs, TV anchors, and other media people, doctors, engineers, lawyers to name a few. This proves that women are in a better position than the previous generation.
Taking our own India into consideration, we have various industrialists, a few of them being Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, the founder of Biocon Ltd, a Bangalore based Bio-Pharmaceutical company, Lakshmi Venu, MD of Sundaram- Clayton limited, Mallika Srinivasan, Chairman and Managing director of TAFE, Ankita Gaba, founder of SocialSamosa.com, and Radhika Ghai Aggarwal, CMO and Co-Founder of Shopclues.com, a shopping platform.
Let’s take a look at Sheryl Sandberg, the Chief Operations Officer at Facebook, and founder of LeanIn.org. She has been named as the most powerful woman in the tech industry by Forbes Magazine for the fifth time continuously.
But, are we paid equally? This has become a big hurdle in the self-reliant growth of women. They are made to be financially dependent on men, though there are a few who have broken the barriers and have just not achieved their pinnacle but have also empowered other women and made them financially strong.
So, here’s the opportunity for you ladies. There’s a woman out there in the male-dominant industry with a net worth of USD 1.7 billion. For how long are we going to wait for a man to provide us opportunities? Stand up and voice for yourself!
