Dola Roychowdhury - Founder Director, GCube Consulting Engineers LLP

The pay parity issue is very subtle and fragmented. It doesn't exist at entry levels any longer - but tends to widen as you go up the chain and hit that invisible ceiling.

Dola Roychowdhury - PE (Geotechnical, Marine & Environmental Engineering) Founder Director, GCube Consulting Engineers LLP

Diversity and inclusion have always been important to me, particularly having worked in an industry with a skewed gender ratio for over 30 years, especially in field jobs.
Compared to the global gender ratio of about 12%, India's female ratio is much lower, and less than 2% of those women reach executive decision-making levels. Although there is an improvement in the ratio at entry levels, with more women engineers graduating and joining the workforce, the drop-out rates at mid-career levels are still astronomically high.

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