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Tech firms have only 26% women in engineering roles: Survey

This reinforces the assumption that science, technology, engineering, and math jobs attract less women, the survey added

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The overall representation of women in the engineering workforce of IT firms is just 34 per cent, according to a survey.
 
“The average number of women (irrespective of their function) in tech companies, we found that the overall representation was 34 per cent,” according to survey by Belong on ‘The gender gap in the tech industry in India’.
 
Belong survey looked at all tech companies in the country and found that there is one woman engineer as against three men engineers, leading to the fact that the Indian technology industry has just 26 per cent women in engineering

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