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Thus, governments across the world, as well as various developmental organizations, are actively undertaking the promotion of female entrepreneurs through various schemes, incentives and promotional measures. Female entrepreneurs in the four southern states and Maharashtra account for over 50% of all women-led small-scale industrial units in India.
The Startup Ladies is an Indiana-based membership organization focused on supporting women entrepreneurs and investors. Founded in 2014 by Kristen Cooper, the organization works to increase the number of women starting scalable businesses and to address investment disparities faced by women entrepreneurs.
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
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.
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.
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.
The Women Transforming India awards are an annual contest supported by the United Nations in India, Indian government website MyGov, and NITI Aayog (the National Institution for Transforming India). They honour "exceptional women entrepreneurs, who are breaking the glass ceiling and challenging stereotypes". [1] The first awards were given in 2016.
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