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Women in Big Data and Analytics

Big Data Industry in India is expected to grow by a considerable percentage till 2025. Several organizations are increasingly shifting to collecting and analyzing large sets of data to stay ahead of the curve. At, WiT, we realized the growing importance of Big Data and Analytics and created a community exclusively for women. The idea behind this community is to engage women in discussions and connect them to opportunities in Big Data through industry collaborations. The community would be involved in diverse discussions on topics like augmented analytics, harnessing of dark data, cost optimization, data storytelling and visualizations. WiT in partnership with organizations would be conducting Hackathons and Bootcamps particularly focused on solving real- life problems to up-skill and increase the learning curve of women.
(This is an all women community)

Current Trends in Women in Big Data and Analytics

Big Data Trends: Eight Trends in 2020
In 2019, enterprise demands rose for real-time and near real-time analytics, and data continued to expand its role in everyday business operations and decision-making. Enterprises will continue to build on these trends in 2020, and that will drive analytics vendors to add new capabilities Read More
8 Most In-Demand Big Data Skills in 2020
Core languages worth investing your time and money in include Python, Java, and C++.Of course, it’s not necessary (or possible) to learn every programming language out there, but the more relevant ones you know, the better your career prospects get. According to our AWS Salary Survey, the top three Read More

Did You Know

Women make up 40% of the world’s workforce, according to the World Bank. Yet, the technology field is notoriously male-dominated at all levels – Considerably worse than in non-technology industries
– As reported by Payscale
Only 21% of executives in tech are women – This despite evidence that more women lead to greater innovation and enhanced profitability
The two biggest barriers women say they face in the technology workplace are lack of mentors (48%) and lack of female role models (42%) ,gender bias at workplace, unequal growth opportunities and unequal pay for same skills
93% girls surveyed in India between 12 to 14-years consider Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) related careers early on. However, 38% Indian teenage girls believe that they are ‘less likely’ to take up STEM because the industry is ‘male-dominated’ and many others drop out before reaching leadership levels
In the 2016–17, colleges approved by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) enrolled 717,506 undergraduate students – 33.7% were female. Women represented 28.1% of participants in Bachelor of Engineering and Bachelor of Technology degree (Research 2018; India Under Graduate Education, data as per MHRD 2016-2017)
Indian technology industry has 26% women in engineering roles
Nearly 50% women engineers quit technology
Only 7% women reach the C-Suite Source: Nasscom Report 2017
1.5 million IT engineers pass out each year in India through over 3400+ engineering colleges peppered across the country. Statistics place employable numbers from these graduates at a mere 7%.