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Growing Women in Technology Sudhir Patnaik
Growing Women in Technology
Sudhir Patnaik
Sudhir Patnaik, VP, Intuit India
May 2, 2017
Growing women in technology
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Our Mission Powering Prosperity Around the World
Who we are
Founded
7,900
Employees
42M
Customers
1993
IPO
4.7B
Revenue
24
Locations
1983
Our Journey
Who we serve
Consumers Small Businesses Self-Employed
Creating an environment where top talent can do the best work of their
lives
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People Focus
India’s Top 10:
2014 2015 2016
#3 2016 Best Place
to Work
IT Industry
#10
2016 Best Place
to Work
India
Top 100 Best Companies for
Women in India
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Women in Technology
Improvements in productivity and
innovation
Higher Retention
Enhancing Brand Awareness
Increase in morale among employees
Indian IT-BPM industry increasingly women centric
• Rapidly moving up the corporate ladder
• Higher share of promotions
• Growing in core business operations
• Career growth through added focus on
training and development
• Headroom for further improvement; needs
sustained CEO focus
• Out of 3.9 M, India’s IT-BPM industry
currently employs 1.3 M women (34%),
• Over 51% of entry level recruits are
women
• Over 25% of women are in managerial
positions but <1% are in the C-Suite.
• Women in tech Roles – 21 %
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Women in Tech - Challenges
Lack of female role models in the field
Gender bias in the workplace
Unequal pay for the same skills
Lack of Self investment in learning
Lack of mentors
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What we have learnt
Hygiene factors today:
• Flexi working
• Work from home
• Transport facilities
• Day care facilities
• Safe working Environment
What has worked at Intuit
• Mentoring
• Building Clear career path
• Networking Opportunities
• Sponsorship
• Constant opportunities for learning and development
• Sabbaticals
• Back to work programs
• Women in Tech: at 27.6%
• 100% Intuit Again conversion
• 38% women (early career)
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Few industry practices
Empowering Women
• Mentoring and developing leadership
• Networking skills
• Clear and visible demonstration of support and transition programs during maternity break
• CEO and senior leadership Ownership
Policy Enablers
• Maternity management,
• Career development
• Gender audits
• Women safety
• Flexibility of work location on spouse relocation
Focused Hiring
• Recruiting & promote campus hiring
• Experienced technical women talent
• Back to work programs
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Leader speak – Must-dos to build your career graph
• Focusing on your skills and staying
current with industry trends
• Signing up a Mentor
• Invest in self to constantly learn
• Power of Networking
Thank you
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