Business Desk :
Women’s participation in ICT is very low although the sector has immense potential for female employment, experts said yesterday.
“This is the sector where women’s participation needs to be increased and we need to start working from the school levels,” said Samira Zuberi Himika, vice president of the Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS).
At the same time, women’s participation should be increased at the policy-making level, their social conditions must be improved and gender discrimination in the workplace should be eliminated, she added.
For this, it is necessary to improve women’s skills in information technology, she added.
She was speaking at a roundtable styled “Use of ICT in empowering women in today’s world” organised by the BASIS Women’s Forum at the trade body’s office.
The participants highlighted the activities of BASIS Women’s Forum to increase women’s participation in Bangladesh’s IT sector.
Women’s participation in IT education and their career prospects and challenges, their participation in IT-based professions and business policy-making and how to inspire other women were also discussed in the roundtable along with sharing success stories of female IT entrepreneurs.
