SYTUACJA KOBIET W BRANŻY IT W INDIACH NA PRZYKŁADZIE MIASTA PUNA

• Authors: Lis Hanna

Title variants

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The Situation of Women in the IT Industry on the Example of Pune City

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Until recently in India women from the middle and higher classes rarely worked outside their homes. They were exposed to several unfavourable social and economic conditions that accompanied them from birth and limited their access to education and the labour market. However, the economic change in India in the last 30 years enabled the development of new professions that allow women with middle and higher education to find employment. One of those industries is Information Technology (IT) where India is firmly established as a world leader. The article aims to present and analyse research on the situation of women in the IT industry, which I conducted in September 2022 in Pune, an Indian city located in the state of Maharashtra. Except for Bangalore, Pune is one of the main Indian centres for companies from the IT sector, which employed over 500,000 people in 2019 (Pune’s population in 2022 was 5 million, the 7 largest in terms of population in India1). The first part of the article presents the situation of women in India and cultural expectations towards them with emphasis on the newly created middle class, an explanation of the transition from the caste system to the class system and the interpenetration of these two systems. Then I will focus on the situation in Maharashtra and Pune – the city where the research has been conducted. The second part presents the situation of women in the labour market in India and the situation of women in the labour market in the field of information technology services. In the third part results of the author’s field research are presented, which focus on the following aspects of women’s work: family (parents’ attitude, social background, search for a husband – the situation on the matrimonial market, household duties, motherhood, place of residence), education (the relationship between education and the work position held, study experience in India and abroad), treatment in the workplace (discrimination, earnings), safety (on the way to work and in the workplace).

Keywords

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India; women; information technologies; Maharashtra; Pune

• Publisher: Polskie Towarzystwo Orientalistyczne
• Journal: Przegląd Orientalistyczny
• Year: 2023
• Issue: 3-4 (287-288)
• Pages: 179-190

Contributors

author

Lis Hanna

• Uniwersytet Warszawski

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Identifiers

DOI

10.33896/POrient.2023.3–4.3