Manufacturing majors bring more female engineers to male-dominated world

In 2023, JSW group has nearly tripled the number of women engineers hired through gradate engineering trainee (GET) programme year on year. It has hired more than 2,300 young GETs, of which nearly 600 are women and has set a target of 30% female GETs in the next two years. L&T inducted over 3,000 GETs in FY23 across its various businesses, of which 30% were women engineers. Tata Power has 23% women representation among engineering trainees in 2023, up from 21% in 2022.