Women Entrepreneurs Building India Globally!!

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Women Entrepreneurs Building India Globally!!

The world has recently been discussing gender roles and stereotypes with greater enthusiasm as an internal memo at Google written by an employee was found to be “perpetuating gender stereotypes”. Columns in newspapers, magazines and websites worldwide were filled up with observations, opinions and scholarly material discussing the issue, while back and forth exchanges in the cyberspace against and in favor of the memo hasn’t quite died out yet. Interestingly, India is witnessing a paradigm shift with women performing as propitiously as men, if not better in some places, in the entrepreneurship arena. Women in India, in most cases supported by strong educational backgrounds, have ventured into almost all the domains previously monopolized by men and continue to reduce stereotypes...