International Women's Day: These Feisty Leaders From Analytics Are Breaking The Glass Ceiling

Last year, when Kate Brodock, CEO and founder of Women 2.0, pointed out that one of the key problems faced in the new tech industry the world over was that it was dominated by'white men'. Lack of racial, cultural diversity and most importantly, lack of gender equality was shaping the internet in a skewed manner. The scant number of women in new tech, especially in the areas of data science, analytics, and artificial intelligence has been a worrying trend in India as well. The resultant sexism is increasingly becoming one of the side-effects, making the global protests for gender equality so much more necessary. Anuradha Sharma, chief operating officer at Scienaptic says, "There is a very prominent male culture in programming and that kind of makes women less visible in data science and analytics field… Women in analytics are hidden, they are doing all the good work, but they are not asserting themselves. I know enough number of women in analytics, who are doing great work but they are not visible."