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The icon
 As the head of Microsoft India, Neelam Dhawan is an icon for women in the IT
industry. There were just a handful women in the industry way back in the early
80s when she began her career accidentally at HCL. She had a hard hitting
learning experience in sales and marketing across IBM and Compaq followed by HP
post the HP-Compaq, merger before she joined Microsoft in 2005. Recalls Dhawan
in an article she wrote for Dataquest, "Personally, I can only
recall one instance of gender discrimination in my working career to date, when
several years ago two male colleagues left the organization I was working with,
rather than report in to a woman boss-me!" Dhawan is a mascot for all the
women in the IT industry where the proportion still remains at a dismal low of
around 18%. Page(s) 1
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