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Title Crossing the Digital Divide: Enhancing Leadership Opportunities for Women in IT and ITES
Authors Kaul, Asha
Publication Date 01-Apr-2007
Year 2007
Abstract The objectives of this study are to: • understand the processes, practices, policies, and procedures being followed and examine if they differentially facilitate capability augmentation, growth, and career prospects for women • solicit participants’ views on “the myth of being stereotyped in IT and ITES” • identify factors inhibiting women advancement to senior management positions, personal and work place related • enumerate facilitators that enable in mentoring women’s advancement to leadership positions so as to benchmark the best practices being followed • illustrate the stories of successful women in senior management positions to provide advice for new women entrants in this field.