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The status of women in India has been subject to many great changes over the past few millennia. With a decline in their status from the ancient to medieval times ...
Chitra Ramkrishna, Former Managing Director and CEO, National Stock Exchange of India; Kalpana Morparia, CEO of South Asia and India Operations at JPMorgan Chase; Manisha Girotra, CEO, Moelis India; Naina Lal Kidwai, Group General Manager and Country Head of HSBC India; Renuka Ramnath, founder of Multiples Alternate Asset Management
Feminism as an initiative started independently in Maharashtra by the pioneer of women's rights and education: Savitribai Phule, who started the first school for girls in India (1848); [18] [19] Tarabai Shinde, who wrote India's first feminist text Stri Purush Tulana (A Comparison Between Women and Men) in 1882; and Pandita Ramabai, who ...
Nearly 40% of female founders said that improving their work-life balance was the biggest catalyst for starting a business. Here's why women are quitting the workforce to become entrepreneurs.
She served in the women's army of Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi and eventually rose to a position of a prominent advisor to the queen, Rani of Jhansi. [9] At the height of the Siege of Jhansi, she disguised herself as the queen and fought on her behalf, on the front, allowing the queen to escape safely out of the fort. [10] She died during the battle.
The Women's University of Science and Technology, which is the first all-women's university in Kenya, allows women to access higher education and entrepreneurial training. [32] These programs have empowered women to create small to medium-size enterprises, such as tailoring and bead-making.
In February, a few months after Carta’s board-led investigation into Talton’s letter, Ward published a post he had written earlier on Medium, explaining some of the executive departures at the ...
Stand-Up India was launched by the Government of India on 5 April 2016 to support entrepreneurship among women and SC & ST communities. Stand Up India Loan Scheme is a government initiative launched by the Government of India in 2016 to promote entrepreneurship and facilitate bank loans to Scheduled Caste (SC) / Scheduled Tribe (ST) and women entrepreneurs in the country.