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Women are still facing many issues in the workforce, and being their own boss certainly is more appealing to some of the everyday issues they face outside of entrepreneurship. Gender roles are still very much a part of their lives, but some female entrepreneurs feel more in control when working for themselves.
She has also spoken with Mint Startup Diaries about challenges for women entrepreneurs, [21] and co-written an opinion article with Byju Raveendran in Vogue India about educational technology in India. [22] In March 2022, Divya Gokulnath was appointed as the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry's EdTech Taskforce Chair. [23]
Arundhati Bhattacharya, Chairperson, State Bank of India (since October 7, 2013) [2] - now retired; Bala Deshpande, MD, New Enterprise Associates India; Chanda Kochhar (born 1961), ICICI Bank Former MD and CEO; Chitra Ramkrishna, Former Managing Director and CEO, National Stock Exchange of India
The Women Entrepreneurship Platform (WEP) is a unified access portal [clarification needed] which brings together women from different regions of India, across economies to realize their entrepreneurial aspirations.
In South Asia, women entrepreneurs lead 20% of social enterprises. [1] Women-led businesses provide economic empowerment especially in cultural contexts where women are not the main breadwinners. [3] [4] India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh all of which have seen a rise in social businesses in the last few decades. [1]
Studies in India [9] have shown that incorporating feminist collaborative learning can help reach women in historically more oppressed geographical areas. Educating women about the field of entrepreneurship has led to an increase in female entrepreneurs. Technology has also allowed for a further reach, in India, facebook was used as a tool for ...
The state adopted a patronizing role towards women. For example, India's constitution states that women are a "weaker section" of the population, and therefore need assistance to function as equals. [2] Thus women in India did not have to struggle for basic rights as did women in the West.
Rashmi Bansal is an Indian non-fiction writer and entrepreneur. As of 2019, she is the author of nine books on entrepreneurship. As of 2019, she is the author of nine books on entrepreneurship. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Her first book, Stay Hungry Stay Foolish , traced the progress of 25 MBA entrepreneurs and sold over 500,000 copies.