When Zartaj Nazneen graduated from an all-girls Urdu-medium school in Metiabruz, also known as Kolkata's mini Lucknow, in 2012-13, she was expected to be a stay-at-home mom.
Instead, she married early, got a job as a teacher, and now she's leading a team of more than 30 domain analysts for artificial intelligence firm iMerit, which has nearly 4,000 employees and is based out of two centers in Baruipur and Metiabruz, reports the Indian Express.
Nazneen, who's in her late 20s, started working for the company as a fresher in her late 20s, and now she's in her mid-30s, has a child, and earns multiples of what she used to be a teacher with iMerit, which works with artificial intelligence models for autonomous vehicles, medical artificial intelligence, precision agriculture, geospatial, and drones.
iMerit is one of the first companies in India to open up courses for women in computer science and artificial intelligence, and the Anudip Foundation, which runs the courses, says it's helped thousands of girls like Nazneen and Barnali Paik, who started working for the company a decade ago
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