Background and challenges
In January 2019, VMware announced a new initiative aimed specifically to address the increasing gender gap in the technology industry -VMinclusion Taara that aims at upskilling 15,000 women in India. With this program, we wanted to highlight VMware India's commitment to driving greater diversity and VMware was late in entering the DEI space with VMinclusion Taara, as there were well-established programs already in the market from reputed corporates such as IBM, Microsoft, ThoughtWorks, etc. with the added advantage that they also provided jobs. However, with VMinclusion Taara it was an opportunity to upskill in the latest technologies...