Ayushi was promoted to Software Development Engineer 1 (SDE1) after a formal course in coding from Masai and a 3-month internship at ShareChat. He is one of the highly paid coders in Masai.
Ayushi is not the only woman coder in the industry as the rise of women in the coding sector has brought a paradigm shift. Women coders are innovative and handling challenging positions efficiently. “Earlier, women were confined to the early programming and coding levels, but now we see them taking on important positions like tech leaders or CEOs. In the coming decade, there will be a strong force of women professionals in the coding sector, as schools have taken up coding and girls are doing well,” says Rajeev Tiwari, Co-Founder, Steamrobo Technologies.
In order to encourage the participation of women in the workplace and remove the gender gap, many companies have started special recruitment drives for women programmers. However, due to the demand-supply gap in the existing workforce, 20% -30% are female programmers and 70% – 80% are male programmers. “For a long time, fewer girls entered engineering, however, their numbers are increasing with every passing year. For example, 15-20 years ago, only 3 girls got into engineering class, but now the percentage of girls It is quite large. Batch size of 30-40 students. Similarly, there is an upward trend of female programmers in recent times,” says Tiwari.
Women are breaking barriers and gender stereotypes, says Trupti Mukherjee, CEO, WhiteHat Jr., where more than 11,000 women are teaching kids to code. According to Deloitte Global, many global technology firms will have 33% female representation in their military by 2022. This will be an increase of more than two percent compared to 2019.
“There has been a positive increase in female candidates learning to code. In addition, the proportion of female engineers has increased over the past 20 years. Women today are more likely to study computer science than ever before. While the technology industry in India has a lot to improve in terms of inclusion and diversity, the tide is turning as women are working in a variety of technical roles in various industries from technology to automotive to programming, software developers, data security, etc. Huh. she says.
Many companies are launching programs to help women join back after marriage or on maternity leave. They are being offered a hybrid working model. “A few years back, our organization had a female workforce of 10-15%, but now we have around 30% women employees, indicating an increase in their numbers. Even at the school level, the number of girl students is increasing year after year. Today, around 40% – 50% of girls are taking classes in coding, STEM and artificial intelligence, compared to only 20% – 30% in the past,” says Tiwari.
Tiwari says that women programmers or coders have an edge over their male counterparts because they have a creative mind that adds value to their careers.