Its conscious, top-down decision for women inclusion is clear.”Īs part of its continued diversity push, the organization is looking to attract more female talent to apply to its open tech roles across projects that span a variety of industries, from banking and finance to insurance, life sciences, retail and the public sector. “This is the first company to have a quantitative target for recruitment and promotion. “I see a distinctive difference,” says Hong Kong-based Wong, who is Assistant Vice President & Head of Cognizant Greater China. Its progressive hiring policies include a target to increase its female senior manager population to 19 percent by end-2023. For one, Wong’s Greater China team is now close to gender parity with women employees comprising 38 percent of the organization as of 2022, as well as 38 percent of all new hires globally.Ĭognizant’s board has five women leaders, up from one in 2019. “I walked into a business meeting,” she says, “and there were 18 men and one woman: myself.”īut in a short two years, things have transformed. They say tech is a man’s world – and Jeanie Wong experienced that firsthand when she landed a regional leadership role in 2021.
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