A lesson from the IIT: Is BTech a suitable career choice for women? An ex-IIT director clarifies

In India, 30 of every 100 engineers with a degree are women. There are 20 female applicants for every 100 BTech admissions at IITs. Women engineers and technocrats are prevalent at both the junior and senior levels in a wide range of industries, including energy, automotive, construction, IT, and more. There is no doubt that BTech is a fantastic career choice for ladies today, as thousands of female engineers show every day.

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Engineers create products that make people’s lives easier. They locate issues in daily life and create products to address them. Selling these items generates profits for the companies, allowing them to pay their engineers well. Some instances: Saloni Malhotra founded DesiCrew in 2004 to offer online IT services from small towns and villages after receiving her BTech from Bharati Vidyapeeth. Currently, 1,000 individuals work with DesiCrew in rural India supplying clients all over the world.

In 2011,  Richa Singh graduated with a BDes from IIT Guwahati. She observed that students’ mental health is a growing issue. She co-founded the online mental health counselling service YourDost in 2014. Several IITs have chosen YourDost as their official counselling partner.

Most engineers work for private companies, however a handful start their own. Others work for the government designing and constructing highways, public structures, and computer systems that serve the general populace.