NEW DELHI: The IT industry in India faces a severe gender gap not only in terms of the number of women in the payroll, but also in terms of remuneration as women employees are getting far less pay than their male counterparts, says a Monster.com report.
According to the Monster Salary Index India IT Sector Report 2014, only 30 percent of the total IT sector workforce in India is comprised of women and the fairer sex also faces a huge gender pay gap of 29 percent.
The gross salary of a male IT worker is 359.25 per hour while a female receives 254.04 per hour and this disparity possibly emerges from the fact that men get promoted to supervisory positions more often than women.
Only 36 percent of female employees are promoted to a supervisory position, while 52 percent of male staff get promoted to a supervisory rank, the report said.
“Amongst many other aspects that the report highlighted — the revelation is the enormous gender gap which employs only 30 per cent women,” Monster.com MD (India/Middle East/ Southeast Asia/Hong Kong) Sanjay Modi said.
Modi added: “It is surprising to see that the most modern sector of India is not only predisposed to a certain gender but is also paying lesser to women employees than their male counterparts, with a grave pay gap of 29 percent.”
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