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BENGALURU: The Indian tech sector has added more than a million women in direct employment in the past decade, underscoring concerted efforts from the industry, academia and government in fostering and supporting inclusive action.Indian IT employed 9 lakh women, or 30% of the 3 million directly employed in the sector in 2012-13. Today, that number has doubled to more than 2 million, or 36% of the total workforce of 5.3 million in the industry.A confluence of factors has accelerated women's representation, including companies developing progressive policies to induct...