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ehind every successful project there lies the hand of a Woman. The old adage
of women being behind successful men has today changed to account for the
new reality and the role the fairer sex is playing in the emerging economy.
Women today form a very large percentage of the educated work force in the country
and in fact are proving to be the country’s key skill assets. In the new Net era in
particular, women are expected to perform myriad and diversified roles. As far as
the software environment is concerned, a woman is in fact proving herself to be the best
person for the job!
Segments such as IT-enabled services, which will be driven by a mobile workforce,
are expected to enlist a significant amount of participation from women workers.
IT-enabled services are in fact going to be the hottest growth segment for the
software sector over the next few years, and a market which will generate revenues
of the order of a mammoth Rs. 81,000 crore by 2008. A staggering 1,100,000
personnel will be employed in this segment by 2008 and a significant number of
these will be women.
It’s time then for Gujarat to accept the vast potential of this currently dormant
human resource volcano. Our very own
bens
in Gujarat, currently tied to home
and hearth, can be our future IT hopes, bearing responsibilities of our software
efforts on their delicate shoulders. Currently, there are a large number of literate Gujarati
women, who on account of family requirements and pressures, are confined to the
home turf. These women are competent, educated and perfectly capable of
integrating into the global business environment. Provided they are given a platform,
and an environment that promises them flexibility, they can turn into a powerful
source of skills and expertise.
Gujarat can enlist these skilled women soldiers into its IT army by setting up
centers that cater to customer interaction services, back office operations,
transcription/translation services, and other services such as remote education, data
search, market research and network consultancy. Besides IT-enabled options,
concepts such as tele-working will have to be given a major boost. By tele-working,
women can become economically productive without stepping out of the comfort
The Times of India, Ahmedabad September 25, 2000
“
Gujarati Women : Best Hands for the IT Job!”
