Women In IT Industry Research Articles

Glass ceiling factors affecting women career advancement in IT industry in India

Women in IT industry is concentrated more in the lower management level and encounter a glass ceiling which is a hindrance as they climb up the career ladder to top management level. This study presents about the glass ceiling factors that affect the career advancement of women in IT industry in India. This study attempts to identify factors which contribute to the glass ceiling which affect women career advancement. Several factors were identified while reviewing the literature; they are personal factors, organizational factors and societal factors. It also aims at finding out which factor from the identified factors contribute more hindrance to the career advancement opportunity for women. Conceptual model is designed based on the information from literature review; whole study is structured based on this conceptual model. Data is collected by floating a questionnaire to the women employees working in IT companies in India. Sample consists of 57 female employees from different IT companies who are in middle level management and in senior level management. From the analysis of the data collected, it is seen that societal factors contribute more hindrance to the women in advancing their careers, women perception about themselves and management perception about women reaching higher position also plays an important role.

Career Development of Women in IT Industry

In the modern era of globalization, women have become career conscious. They want to enter into the professions which were hitherto the forte of men only. Work participation rate of women in India has already increased. The presence of women in the Information Technology Industry is remarkable. This study tries to examine the issues of entry, career growth and barriers for the women working in Information Technology Industry. An attempt has been made to in this study to explore the various aspects like choice of career, job designation, promotions, career development strategy, appraisal, attrition, initiative to attract women. The study discovers that women have great interest in career in information technology and career ambitious women have preferred choice of Information Technology. Once a woman enters into a profession/job, she has opportunity to perform and prove her worth. There is a pressure on the employees to perform to scale the higher ladders of growth in quick succession.

A study on quality of life of female IT professionals in India

The entry of women as IT professionals in the fast growing software services sector is one of the noteworthy transformations observed in the labor markets in India. This change can largely be attributed to the growth of the IT-BPO industry, which is one of the largest recruiters of a qualified workforce in recent times. Information Technology sector has unveiled tremendous employment prospects for women in areas such as tele-communications, banking, shopping, education, health and business amiably befitting their job environment where the salary is attractive and the job is mostly desk type in nature. Women have now become an integral part of the workplace which has brought a drastic change in their position from a mere house keeper or child bearer into women as both bread winner and capable of handling household roles too. But this paradigm shift in the position of women from traditional homemaker to working professional has posed many challenges because these jobs are accompanied with hectic work schedule and target oriented leading to workplace stress. In the light of the increasing number of women in IT industry, there is a need to examine the phenomenon of the quality of life of Indian women IT professional in greater depth.

Competences Assessment and Evaluation Differences and Errors – a Case of IT Profession

Abstract The purpose of this paper is to verify the hypothesis assuming that appraisal evaluation in companies is overestimated, especially in the case of male IT professionals. Although a valid and reliable evaluation and assessment method exists, and the Development Center method could be mentioned in this context, competences are not assessed properly enough in business. To achieve this goal, the authors analyzed a competence profile relevant to labour market regarding interns graduated from the Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology (P-JIIT). The authors explored the results of competence assessment conducted with the Development Center method, as well as the results of performance evaluation upon the completion of a three-month internship in the leading IT companies. The analysis of differences with respect to gender was made basing on the two sources of information on competences. It is preceded by an introduction outlining the main competence-related issues, the Development Center and the performance evaluation principles and errors, as well as the project for IT graduates carried out in the P-JIIT. The findings of the study show that in terms of the performance women in IT industry are evaluated by employers lower than men. This, however, is not the case when we take into consideration reliable scores of assessment conducted by objective assessors during the processes of Development Center.