How outsourcing can contribute filling the gender gaps and equality in technology

Information technology (IT) outsourcing is changing the way businesses manage and operate their information systems. There are lots of benefits that outsourcing services are achieving but the purpose of this article is to conduct the benefits that outsourcing is bringing to fill the gender gaps and gender equality in IT industry. The last decade has brought lots of improvement in technology but also in the participation and contribution of women’s on it. The demand for computer science engineers has increased with huge steps. There are also more women’s involved in industry that made to break the stereotypes and gaps of the women’s in these field.

Working in IT and Business Process Outsourcing (BPOs) can be a means to women’s economic empowerment. The relatively high wages and benefits mean the greater security and anatomy. Employers and clients can increase the number of the women they work with, taking advantage and diversity and access to a wider variety of talents. Women can work from different places and flexible times.

According to the Outsource2LAC panel, strategies to increase women’s leadership and empowerment in the digital services sector include:

Training human resources managers on hiring strategies to equalize the imbalance;
Retaining women through competitive benefits;
Actively grooming women for leadership positions through training, career planning and mentoring;
Publicly celebrating women’s successes in the field;
Embracing opportunities for networking and dialogue on gender balance, including ensuring that women are well represented as expert speakers on all topics, not just women-related issues.

“Women play a vital role in both society and the workforce, and we have reached a significant moment in a growing international movement toward women’s equality and opportunity,” said Dana Corbett, IAOP Director, Research, Training & Certification. “We are proud to be joining this global movement in recognizing and valuing all women fairly, as their effective empowerment is a clear catalyst for progress.”Especially in small countries where the opportunities to work are in low rates, the outsourcing is offering a place where women can work and contribute for global companies.

Kosovo is one of the best places for outsourcing and the lots of companies have already invested. The women are being more involved in the tech field and are working as outsource or freelance. There are lots of companies that are hiring women as software developers, network engineers, IT technicians, IT managers etc. One of the best outsourcing companies in the Kosovo is Kosbit, who as a part of his staff has 30 percent of women employed and are expecting more to be employed in near future. Most of them have technical background and they are working as outsource in the global industry for different clients of Kosbit. Additionally, Kosbit provides their Training & Certification program, to women’s that are employed and so they have the opportunity to grow and advance in their career paths.

Finally outsourcing companies in Kosovo are hugely contributing in filling the gender gaps and create an equal work environment for women. Their contribution is expected to further develop in different ways and advance more in future, but it is worth to say that they are doing an impact already. They are changing not only Kosovan women’s life, but also contributing in global cause for filling the gender gaps and equality in IT companies.

There are lots of the benefits that outsourcing has brought to the women as flexible working hours, working from home where women can be closer to her family, opportunity to work and do career in global companies etc.