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It it my somewhat anecdotal experience that, in spite of gender inequalities there are far more percentage of Indian women in tech than their western counterpar
by gnufied 10y ago
It it my somewhat anecdotal experience that, in spite of gender inequalities there are far more percentage of Indian women in tech than their western counterparts (particularly US).
I remember rubyconfindia 2010 - where 30-40% participants were women. Ola bini or one of the keynote speakers commented this is first rubyconf. where he has seen so many women and I could concur because I have been to many conferences here in US and there never were that many women.
Tech. meetups is another story though. Most meetups in India are organized on weekends and there are hardly any women.
- kumarm 10y agoSeveral South Indian States has 30% seats in Engineering Colleges reserved for Woman. Significantly contributed to increase in women in Tech.
- shas3 10y agoThere are only four South Indian states. I am aware of caste-based quotas, but not gender-based ones. Can you provide a source for this?
- abc_lisper 10y agoThere are. I lived through it. For the same grade, a girl could get into a better school than me.
- kumarm 10y agoNo there are 5 South Indian States. Here is a link to explaining Quotas in Colleges for AP and Telangana. http://www.netbadi.in/reservation-quotas.html?showall=1 http://www.netbadi.in/reservation-quotas.html?showall=1 Women's Quota for both states in 33.3% (1/3rd has to be women). Personally I think it worked well. The Quota was first implemented in 1993.
- BadassFractal 10y agoThere were a couple of studies that showed that in developing countries where social support structures aren't strong you generally see a lot more women go into the less gender traditional fields such as engineering. See Eastern Europe, China, India etc. However once a country's quality of life goes up dramatically, women generally (this word is key, there are always outliers) will gravitate towards more traditional feminine occupations such as nursing, teaching, etc . See the Scandinavian countries.
- BeetleB 10y ago>There were a couple of studies that showed that in developing countries where social support structures aren't strong you generally see a lot more women go into the less gender traditional fields such as engineering. See Eastern Europe, China, India etc. I had to read that twice to follow you. Be careful with your wording. What you meant was government funded social structures, as opposed to actual social structures (family structure, etc). Most Indians who move to the US will be quick to tell you how much worse the social support structures are in the US. In India, there is usually little need for daycare (relatives almost always look after the kids). Same goes for taking care of the chronically unhealthy people, etc.
- BadassFractal 10y agoThat's fair, cheers.
- zdkl 10y agoDoes anyone have a link to these studies?
- joericky233223 10y agoThat's the point. The author merely guessed it from the data of other studies which is impressive and totally correct
- edblarney 10y ago
- thewhitetulip 10y agoThid is maybe becayse IT/CS is considered "female" fields and "safe" for girls to get a degree into. My mother annoyed me for a month when I told her I wanted to get into IT, she told me it was a women field you take admission in mechanical etc