Women and the cloud: The potential equalizer in a gender biased tech industry
By Navanwita Bora Sachdev, a freelance contributor and the Editor of The Tech Panda.
The success of cloud tech in India offers a huge opportunity for Indian women in tech. The cloud computing skills shortage is ensuring a gender diverse cloud workforce in India, but when it comes to investing in women led cloud organisations, challenges remain.
Cloud technology is one of the greatest enablers today in the Indian business sector, with each industry moving towards a cloud positive future. While Meity has called it a trillion dollar opportunity, according to IDC the overall Indian public cloud services market will reach $10.8 billion by 2025, growing at a CAGR of 24.1% for 2020-25.
Every tech company will expand as the opportunities are enormous since India is one of the leading countries to adopt cloud and AI. While giants like Infosys, TCS, Wipro are paving the way, scintillating the startup scene are unicorns like Amagi and Darwin Box.
However, as any other tech, are women able to benefit from this new age technology as much as their male counterparts?
This expansion must include women to be part of the new economic force that is getting developed, says Chaitra Vedullapalli, Co-founder and CMO of Meylah as well as Co-founder of Women in Cloud, a community-led organization working towards generating US$1 billion of economic access for women entrepreneurs and professionals by 2030.
“Failing to do so will hurt our country's future, as well as other countries around the world that are realizing this same trend. My philosophy is that economic development happens when people are actively engaged. Whether it's a man or a woman doesn't matter - we all need to help each other achieve success at achieving their career goals and helping
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