| | The Indian information technology industry is often represented as providing employment
opportunities to a wider cross section of society than has been the case with other professional
and white collar jobs. However, available data suggest that the social composition of the IT
workforce is more homogeneous than is often supposed, in that the workforce is largely urban,
middle class, and high/middle caste. The processes of exclusion that operate in the educational
system and in recruitment as also the ideology of “merit” in the context of elite opposition to
reservation, create this relative social homogeneity in the IT workforce.
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