Woman power in tech C-suites rises
India leads the way as women in driver seat at Indian units of Adobe, Intel, Salesforce
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Bengaluru: Women technology leaders are increasingly occupying the C-suite roles of multinational corporations with Prativa Mohapatra being appointed as the new chief of Adobe India.
Mohapatra will oversee the San Jose-based company's India business and growth opportunity across three units-Adobe Experience Cloud, Adobe Creative Cloud and Adobe Document Cloud.
With this appointment, she joins the league of those women leaders in the technology space who
are driving transformation of their organisations at this crucial juncture. For instance, Nivruti Rai is heading Intel India operations at a time when chip shortage is plaguing the world. Similarly, former State Bank of India (SBI) chairman Arundhati Bhattacharya has been operating as the CEO & Chairman of SaaS giant Salesforce India. Roshni Nadar, chairperson of HCL Technologies is another such example of women in leadership role.
Interestingly, Debjani Ghosh is heading the National Association of Software &Services Companies (NASSCOM) as president, reflecting the healthy trend of women leaders leading the $150 billion worth Indian IT industry at a time when the country is becoming the epicentre of technology innovation.
Globally, many women leaders are spearheading several technology giants. For instance, Julie Sweet is currently the chair and chief executive officer of Accenture. Susan Wojcicki, the CEO of YouTube; Safra A. Catz, CEO of Oracle Corp; Lisa Su, CEO of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD); Whitney Wolfe Herd, CEO of Bumble are some of the other examples where women leaders are leading the show.
Not only in leadership roles, even the number of women software professionals working in Indian IT services firms are also rising.
Around one third of Tata Consultancy Services' (TCS) total workforce of around five lakh comprises women. Similarly, Infosys is focusing on to have 45 per cent feminine workers in its complete workforce by 2030. Currently, 38.6 per cent of workforce comprises women in Infosys. For Wipro, this number is more than 35 per cent.
According to industry body Nasscom, the technology industry in India currently has a gender
diversity ratio of 33 per cent, which is a result of significant industry interventions over the years.
"The rising role of women in all ladders of technology industry shows the inclusiveness of the
industry. India shows the way to the world as we are producing more number of women engineers apart from the positive interventions by all stakeholders," said a HR professional.
Experts said this trend is likely to continue as the top-4 IT firms are planning to hire around 60,000 women from campuses this year.
