Social Responsibility
″Development can never be achieved if one half of the population is excluded from the opportunities it brings″
It is the 21st century, believed to be the fastest paced and the most advanced century that our civilization has witnessed. As Indians and as world citizens, we are gaining new ground daily and our success stories number in millions. But still, six out of ten of world’s and India’s poorest people are women, less than 16 percent of the world’s parliamentarians are women, two thirds of all children shut outside the school gates are girls, and, both in times of armed conflict and behind closed doors at home, women are still systematically subjected to violence.
In India and for the most part of the developing world, women produce half of the food, take care of most of the responsibilities including household activities like caring for the sick and children, preparing food and bringing water to add to other things. Any human being who juggles their roles on so many fronts can claim to be among the best of managers. Sadly, a woman’s productivity is counted as low and is believed to be far from their full potential.
The reason seems to be their limited access to education and other opportunities.
Gender equality and women’s empowerment are human rights that IAIT strongly believes in, and feels that women’s advancement is a process of empowerment and defines it as a means by which women achieve increased control over public decision making.
IAIT is actively working towards for women empowerment in India by providing special considerations to the fairer sex in form of specialized discounts on our educational modules and developing women’s capacities through training, knowledge-sharing and networking.
We have been involved in special career counseling sessions to answer queries regarding career opportunities after courses like BBA, BCA, MBA, MCA, BScIT and MScIT. It is heartening to see that a lot of women are showing interest in Journalism & Mass Communication apart from the above-mentioned course modules.
IAIT recognizes the fact that women have a wide array of commitments and in response has introduced flexible learning modules where women have an option of pursuing courses through distance education mode, self learning, weekend classes or full time classes.
IAIT is an authorized centre of the Sikkim Manipal University, Punjab Technical University and the Karnataka State Open University and is offering specialized discounts on university degree courses for women.
IAIT promotes equality between women and men through ‘Gender Mainstreaming’ i.e. identifying gaps in gender equality. We strongly believe that providing motivation and empowering women with the required training and skills to perform on the management front will go a long way in establishing true gender mainstreaming.
We recognize the fact that despite good intentions and garnering some real progress, IAIT is still running a small initiative. We intend to make a deeper and lasting impact on gender equality by targeting not only education, but also committing ourselves to knowledge development and the will for women empowerment.
For most of the part, all our efforts come down to these following points that are always committed to, and need to be ably supported:
- Strengthen opportunities for higher education for women, while meeting commitments to universal education.
- Eliminating gender inequality in employment by decreasing women’s reliance on informal employment.
- Closing gender gaps in earnings and reducing occupational segregation.
At IAIT, we see the formal workplace as a workshop, where people discuss traditional roles and views and transform their attitudes and perceptions in realistic and practical terms to face the challenges of the future. Equalizing the opportunities for women, by providing educational access, would go a long way to achieve true “En-genderization” of the workplace and help women maximize their potential at both the personal and professional front and prove to be assets to their organizations.
