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Source: IMTMA

First batch of Female Students who underwent training as part of the Tata Electronics and SkillSonics at IMTMA

MAKING AN IMPACT

The manufacturing ecosystem is undergoing a massive transformation, with
more women stepping up to make huge strides and help the industry reap big
rewards with their potential.

f women in factories Current scenario percentage of females than
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new initiatives to encourage
pandemic taught us that a
Allies would lose the war,” challenged world is an ‘alert women to enter the workforce.
Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre, world’ and often challenges pave Women are holding top positions
the commander-in-chief of the way for ‘changes’. We have in various industries overall,
the French forces during lived through unprecedented and have been doing excellent
World War I, once famously times in the last two years, battling work in their respective fields.
remarked. Joffre’s now popular and overcoming challenges Similarly, among the Indian
words had back then drawn related to lives and livelihoods. Machine Tool Manufacturers’
European women in large The uncertainty has brought Association (IMTMA) member
numbers to factory premises to more women to the fore where companies, we have women
work as welders, machinists, they can take charge and choose holding prominent positions.
technicians, etc. to challenge what has been The positive outcome of this has
The need of the hour had traditionally holding them back. been that they are encouraging
perhaps triggered the entry Companies, in recent years, other women to join the
of the female workforce have warmed up to hiring Manufacturing industry.
into what predominantly used women with the requisite To aid this positive change,
to be a male bastion. However, skills in various sectors, such as IMTMA conducts women’s
the percentage of women Automobile, Heavy Engineering, exclusive training programs to
globally is still a far cry from Mines, Earthmoving Equipment make women industry-ready.
what it should have been in Handling, etc. In addition, Presently, over 20 female
more than a century since organizations are establishing candidates are undergoing
Source: IMTMA World War I. factories with a higher comprehensive training on

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