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Women in IOT(Internet of Things)

It is estimated that most of the organizations will adopt IoT solutions within next year. Bain report predicts that the IoT market will grow up to US$520 billion by 2021. India is a remarkable landscape as a growing hub for IoT. The growing internet and smartphone penetration will make IoT the next biggest market in India. WiT analyzed the current landscape and established Women In IoT Community. The community provides a platform for women aspiring to be the next leader in IoT. This community will engage in discussions ranging on topics like upcoming trends in IoT, 5G technologies and IoT, blockchain, etc. The members will get an opportunity to interact with the leaders in IoT, share their ideas, participate in Hackathons happening round the year, up-skill themselves through training and seek multiple job opportunities in this sector.
(This is an all women community)

Current Trends in Women in IOT(Internet of Things)

Upcoming Trends in IoT and Strategy for The Future
All in all, what will the future of IoT in 2020–2025 (and past) resemble? Research firms like Statista project in excess of 30 billion gadgets by 2020 and 75 billion by 2025 will be associated. Most importantly we’re discussing a significant measure of “things” Read More
10 Most In-Demand IoT Skills To Learn in 2020
Building an IoT system requires a team effort. A basic IoT team includes an electrical engineer, a mechanical engineer, an industrial designer, an embedded systems designer, one back-end developer, one front-end developer and a product manager. The more knowledge each member of the team… 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%.