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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

The Business Imperative.

Overview

Nasscom is committed to create a culture of diversity and inclusiveness in India. Our focus is on building trust and creating a culture where everyone feels free to express themselves.

We celebrate people from varying backgrounds including gender, race, age, nationality, sexual orientation, culture, education, and experiences. We respect their ideas, and points of views with an aim to create an impact in #ShapingTheTechade.

Our vision to re-architect a new tomorrow where inclusion & diversity is the DNA of our organizational culture. We truly aim to make inclusion as the key differentiator of the Tech Industry in India.

Diversity Overview
  • 36% Gender diversity

    Gender diversity
  • 1.8 million Women employees – largest private-sector employer

    Women employee
  • Talent from 150+ nationalities

    Talent
  • 200K Women hired in FY22E

    Women hired

Diversity & Inclusion is not just a goal but a mainstream business imperative

Inclusion & Mission
Nasscom Inclusion Mission
  • CEO Pledge and Commitment- Inclusion is a CEO Agenda
  • Deeper engagement with members and encouragement to create an ecosystem that supports Diversity and Inclusion
  • Exponential Advocacy & Communication: Building content on conversations, practices, and policies
  • Assessment Framework – Build and launch the framework & adoption
  • DEI Index and benchmarks with the compendium of best practices
  • Celebrating inspiring community stories & best practices
  • Awards & Accolades
  • Reasonable accommodation in the workplace
  • Ecosystem Partnership

The Impact

Here is how we make it happen

  • Putting Diversity and Inclusion into reality
  • Joint insights with Academia, Ecosystem Partners & Industry
  • Creating a world-class community of product champions
  • Upskilling women in emerging technologies
  • Bridging Gender Gap in tech sector
  • CEO pledge & Commitment

Putting Diversity and Inclusion into reality

Diversity and inclusion is a priority at nasscom. Our key focus is on implementing practices that boost happiness, and creativity and build an inclusive culture. Here are some of the top practices:

  • Creating awareness by conducting webinars on Different diverse pillars, Inclusion & Workshops on reducing the gender gap

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  • Featuring informative blogs on inclusion to the community page

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  • Nasscom Women MentHERship program for women technology professionals to interact and learn from the industry's best design principles of leadership and scale

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Putting Diversity and Inclusion into reality

Joint insights with Academia, Ecosystem Partners & Industry

  • IIM Ahmedabad report on Women Returnship Program
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  • DEI best practices- whitepaper by RANDSTAD, supported by nasscom
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Joint insights with Academia, Ecosystem Partners & Industry

Creating a world-class community of product champions

Nasscom Women Product Champions (NWPC) is an initiative by nasscom ProductSkills that envisions to create a world-class community of champions that encourages the development of women professionals interested in and excelling in Product Management.  The program focuses on giving personalized coaching to women, supports existing women PMs by upskilling them in product skills and the leadership skills and creates networking opportunities for women to accelerate the career growth by connecting them with industry leaders.

Creating a world-class community of product champions

Upskilling women in emerging technologies

FutureSkills Prime is democratizing learning with free signups for all, irrespective of gender, location, profession. Out of 9 Lakh + learners on FutureSkills Prime, 38.2 % are women – a robust number and growing. Women have mostly enrolled in emerging tech like Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence, IOT, Big Data

Upskilling women in emerging technologies

Bridging Gender Gap in tech sector

With an aim to build awareness among the women from all job roles about the tech capabilities in future technologies, Nasscom's Women Wizards Rule Tech (W²RT) Program was launched. The program caters to a pressing need of the tech industry by up-skilling of women employees with the most in-demand technologies to ensure gender diversity in tech. The platform created an ecosystem of over 100+ tech companies, 100+ tech gurus, 30+ role models (Iconic Women Leaders), 530 mentors and over 9500+ participant’s users through last three cohorts.

Diversity @nasscom

  • Around 40% women across nasscom
  • Around 39% at Director+ position
  • Around 47% MOC
Bridging Gender Gap in tech sector

CEO pledge & Commitment

Discussions with CEOs on how they look at Diversity Equity and Inclusion in an integrated way

CEO Conversations

  • Becoming a better business – Putting Diversity & Inclusion into reality
  • The role that Diversity and Inclusion play in the war for Talent
  • Future of work is changing the equations on IDEA
  • Bridging the Gender Gap in the ER&D Industry

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CEO pledge & Commitment
  • Events
  • Report Launches
  • Blogs
  • Featured Videos
Blogs
  • 20th Jul, 2420:23 PM

    In my last blog, I had highlighted the what are the key objectives of DE&I across organisations and who is driving the DE&I agenda at India Inc. Taking the same discussion forward I would noe like to talk about the challenges that still…

    -by nehajain
  • 13th Jul, 2420:23 PM

     

     

     

    In my last blog, I discussed why diversity is becoming continuously important. Statistics support that a lot that needs to be done as India ranks 135 among a total of 146 countries in the Global Gender Gap Index 2022…

    -by nehajain
  • 28th Jun, 2420:23 PM

    Key Highlights

    DE&I: Paradigm shift from a ‘nice-to-have’ initiative to a ‘must-have’ business imperative​

    Formalization of DE&I, budgeting for it, and embedding it in the organization's culture and values have become…

    -by nasscominsights
Featured Videos
Recognizing DEI Champions
DEI Champion 2023
Recognising pioneering efforts in DE&I to reimagine benchmarks, design meaningful programs with passion and drive a culture that enables all employees to excel.
DEI Champion for Women's Excellence Awards inclusion
Recognising companies that are helping women smash the glass ceiling in every way possible.
DEI Champion for PwD Inclusion
Recognising companies that are enabling a level playing field for employees with disability
DEI Champion for LGBTQIA+ Inclusion
Recognising companies that are going above and beyond to ensure inclusion of employees from the LGBTQIA+ community.
Jury's Special Mention
Recognising companies that are taking the road less travelled through unique DE&I initiatives.
  • For Pioneering Intergenerational reverse mentoring.

  • Leading the way with setting up the Inclusion Lab.

  • For Initiatives that promote excellence in the inclusion of women in the workplace.

  • Driving Colleague, Culture, and Community impact through the 3CS initiative.

  • For Changing Lives in Rural India by creating employment for the marginalized youth.

SME Special Mention
Jury- SME -Recognize the Leadership in establishing an inclusive and equitable workplace.
Council Members