• Ms. Leena Nair
• Dr. Kirti Gupta

Every society consists of diverse set of people having multiple ideas, values, background. These multitudes of thoughts, idea and backgrounds add up to multiple identities that can be quite disturbing, if not managed well. IT-BPM industry is working on diversity management and the Gender ratio in the IT-BPM industry is quite healthy. Women contribute to 34% of this sector’s workforce . The average age of the employees in this sector is 27 years, and this sector is the leading employers of millenials and Gen Y. but it has only 1% of physically disabled/ challenged employees. This needs to be looked into. Companies have to challenge themselves in coming up with solutions to prevent the attrition of women from the work place. The more support women get from the organization, the more enriched their work life balance will be and that means the better they can contribute towards organizational goals. This paper focuses on the Gender Diversity in the IT industry in Pune. The role of gender diversity on communication, mentoring, training , job satisfaction ,self esteem and promotions is explored. A structured equation model ( SEM) for the same is suggested through this study. Gender diversity is a highly contested issue in the organizations these days. Companies have drafted policies and are implementing initiatives to improve their gender ratio. Women bring different perspective to the organizations and when women leave the organization due to inadequate support from their peers and colleagues , or because of family issues, organizations miss out on leveraging a very important asset.

Gender Diversity, Communication, Mentoring, Training , Promotion, Self esteem

"Impact Of Managing Gender Diversity On Internal Environment ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 11, page no.40-50, November-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1811706.pdf

"Impact Of Managing Gender Diversity On Internal Environment ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 11, page no. pp40-50, November-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1811706.pdf