Women Entrepreneurs
Posted by internationalh on June 24, 2006
Stories about women starting their own buisnesses are classically rare. We only hear about them within the context of microfinancing schemes, if ever. So here's a change.
Lately a topic that has been getting a lot of my interest has been women entrepreneurs in India. You would be amazed at the dearth of material there is out there on women who run their own enterprises. This is illustrated by the fact that most of the information is about Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, the founder of Biocon. The other category of information is about women who have inherited their family run business or parts of it. What is really lacking is stories of first generation women entrepreneurs, or even those who broke out of the mould of their fathers' businesses and did something on their own.
