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June 29, 2007 Challenges of women participation in Workforce - is it the educational system, the social environment or the technical inclination? Dr. Partha Pratim Das Interra Systems (India) Pvt. Ltd.   Panel Discussion: WieNSET-2007
Factor: Educational Systems Culprit or Savior?
Educational Systems Unfair on the face of it Engineering colleges rue the skewed boy-girl ratio Fair at the policy level The utilization suffers – Social Factors?
Factor: Technical Inclination Savior?
Technical Inclination
Technical Inclination
Technical Inclination Why Men Don´t Listen and Women Can´t Read Maps?  Brain Mapping Results by PET Heavy Parallelism Weak Geometric Processing Nobel Prize Statistics – Women Winners Physics: 2 Chemistry: 3 Medicine: 7 Literature: 10 Peace: 12 Are Women Technically Handicapped or Differently Abled?
Factor: Social Environment Culprit?
Social Environment Declining Sex Ratio Foetal Determination Female Infanticide Commoditization of Women Workplace Discrimination against Women  Perception on Technical Inclination Less available hours Men often acrimonious to women bosses / colleagues Workplace (sexual) harassment in disguise Domestic Discrimination against Women Working women have two full-time jobs Girl child dropout from school is way higher Usual domestic violence Stereotyping of Role … … …
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Women In Engineering Panel Discussion

  • 1. June 29, 2007 Challenges of women participation in Workforce - is it the educational system, the social environment or the technical inclination? Dr. Partha Pratim Das Interra Systems (India) Pvt. Ltd. Panel Discussion: WieNSET-2007
  • 2. Factor: Educational Systems Culprit or Savior?
  • 3. Educational Systems Unfair on the face of it Engineering colleges rue the skewed boy-girl ratio Fair at the policy level The utilization suffers – Social Factors?
  • 7. Technical Inclination Why Men Don´t Listen and Women Can´t Read Maps? Brain Mapping Results by PET Heavy Parallelism Weak Geometric Processing Nobel Prize Statistics – Women Winners Physics: 2 Chemistry: 3 Medicine: 7 Literature: 10 Peace: 12 Are Women Technically Handicapped or Differently Abled?
  • 9. Social Environment Declining Sex Ratio Foetal Determination Female Infanticide Commoditization of Women Workplace Discrimination against Women Perception on Technical Inclination Less available hours Men often acrimonious to women bosses / colleagues Workplace (sexual) harassment in disguise Domestic Discrimination against Women Working women have two full-time jobs Girl child dropout from school is way higher Usual domestic violence Stereotyping of Role … … …