Closing the Gap: Diversity in Engineering Leadership Across India's Tech Hubs
Representation in senior engineering roles remains a challenge across India's technology sector. We look at what's working for organizations making progress.
By Srikrishnan Ananthanarayanan, Founder at Adviti
Despite strong representation at entry levels, the proportion of women and underrepresented groups in senior engineering leadership roles in India remains low across most sectors covered by Adviti's search practice.
Organizations making measurable progress share a common thread: they treat leadership pipeline diversity as a multi-year investment rather than a hiring quota to be met in a single search.
This includes sponsoring mid-career professionals into stretch leadership roles, building structured mentorship programs, and ensuring search shortlists are genuinely representative rather than symbolic.
For DeepTech and EV sectors in particular, where the existing senior talent pool skews heavily in one direction, this long-term approach is the only one that has shown sustained results.
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