One lakh Women to be trained in tech fields by UpGrad for Business

By: WE Staff | Friday, 4 June 2021

UpGrad for Business, the B2B arm of edtech platform upGrad, announced on Thursday that it is in talks with corporations to train over one lakh women in data science, technology, and management roles.

This is part of the company's WISDOM (Women in Science, Data, Organizational Behavior, and Management) initiative.

According to a statement, the initiative would empower organisations to improve gender diversity in these traditionally male-dominated fields.

"We have 23.3 percent women in the workplace today as compared to 42.7 percent two decades ago. This is alarming in the context of the Indian corporate ecosystem.” "As part of our 'WISDOM' initiative, we aim to bring holistic learning for our women colleagues, by melding our Data and Soft Skills expertise," upGrad for Business President Minaxi Indra stated. 

She went on to say that the vision is to encourage women professionals to not only thrive but also drive success for their organisations.

UpGrad for Business has curated three categories of women-focused programmes, with a focus on young professionals, middle management, and business leaders.

According to the report, these programmes would be an excellent addition to data, technology, management, and behavioural programmes.

upGrad collaborates with global universities such as Duke Corporate Education (US), Michigan State University (US), Liverpool John Moores University (UK), Deakin Business School (Australia), Swiss School of Business Management (Geneva), IIT Madras (India), IIM Kozhikode (India), and others to offer over 100 courses.

Since its inception in 2015, the edtech firm has impacted over 1 million registered learners in over 50 countries.

UpGrad received its first external funding in April 2021, a $120 million (approximately Rs 897.3 crore) injection from Singapore-based Temasek. Until then, it was owned, funded, and run entirely by its co-founders as a capital-efficient business.

It acquired Impartus, a provider of video-enabled learning solutions, last month.