7.2x rise in women enrolment for online training programmes : Survey

There has been a 7.2x rise in women enrolment for online training programmes, finds a new survey.

Due to the pandemic, rapid technological advancements, and increasing awareness, overall e-learning has seen tremendous growth over the past couple of years. A significant rise among women enrolling for online trainingshas also been observed. Over the past six years, the number of women e-learners has grown by 7.2x, finds data from Internshala.

Out of all the e-learners choosing online courses for their skilling and upskilling requirements, 40% were women e-learners.


Among many reasons, 49% of women learners stated that the top reason for them choosing online training for skilling is to gain an employment opportunity — either an internship or a job. Following this, 32% women took up online courses to gain new skills. Other reasons included to earn a certificate, to build a project, and to fulfill college requirements with 8%, 6%, and 4% women enrolling for the reason respectively.

Women have shown immense interest in STEM and management courses in the past year. Web development being the most popular, 29% women took up Web development training in 2022. This was followed by digital marketing at 19% and programming with Python at 16%. Women also actively pursued training in in-demand skills like advanced Excel, financial modelling and evaluation, data science, and machine learning.

Out of all the women e-learners, the majority of them at 41% were from tier-3 cities.