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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]
Female entrepreneurship has been recognized as an important source of economic growth. Female entrepreneurs create new jobs for themselves and others and also provide society with different solutions to management, organisation, and business problems. However, they still represent a minority of all entrepreneurs.
Some names such as Marie Curie and Ada Lovelace are widely known, many other women have been active inventors and innovators in a wide range of interests and applications, contributing important developments to the world in which we live. [2] [3] The following is a list of notable women innovators and inventors displayed by country.
Nooyi has consistently ranked among the world's 100 most powerful women. [6] In 2014, she was ranked at number 13 on the Forbes list, and the second most powerful woman on the Fortune list in 2015 and 2017. [7] [8] [9] She sits on the boards of Amazon and the International Cricket Council, among other organizations. [10] [11]
In 2012, Fortune named her No. 8 on its Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs list. In 2008, Rashmi was named one of the World's Top 10 Women Influencers in Web 2.0 by Fast Company. [1] In January 2015, The Economic Times listed her as one of 20 "most influential" global Indian women. [2]
Newsweek named Dai one of the "150 Women Who Shake the World." [20] She has been profiled by CNN International for the Leading Women Innovator Series. [21] In 2004, Dai was a recipient of the EY Entrepreneur of the Year award. [22] On May 12, 2012, Dai became the first female commencement speaker at the UC Berkeley College of Engineering. [23]
Shahnaz has also represented India at President Barack Obama's World Summit for Entrepreneurs. In 1996, she won Success Magazine's "World's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur" award. [7] She has walked the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival and has spoken at both the House of Lords and House of Commons in the British Parliament.
Kalpana Saroj (born 1961) is an Indian business woman, entrepreneur and a TEDx speaker, [1] and the chairperson of Kamani Tubes in Mumbai, India.Known as Indian Woman entrepreneur, she bought the distressed assets of Kamani Tubes Company and successfully steered the company back to profitability.