A study on the determinants of career choices and career breaks among women professionals in the IT sector

Authors

  • Shalini Acharya
  • Narendra H.M
  • Seema Sambargi

Abstract

In India, the last three decades have been witness to significant changes with respect to the career trajectories amongst women. The increase in women seeking employment opportunities has been on the rise, especially post Liberalization, privatization and globalization and the IT revolution that hit India in the last decade of the last century. In this paper, an empirical study of the career choices of women workforce in Information and Technology (IT) is presented. The objectives of the study were to find out the most important reasons for the choice of career amongst women professionals, understand the association between ‘parental occupation’ and the ‘reason for the choice of profession’ among women professionals and to find out the predominant reasons for a break/s in a woman’s career. The analysis of data collected through surveys resulted in thought-provoking insights into the reasons for both career choices and career breaks amongst women

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2020-01-28

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