The Ministry of Commerce & Industry said on 25 December that over 73,000 Indian enterprises had at least one female director, as certified under the Startup India initiative. In a statement, the ministry emphasised that this amounts to almost half of the 157,066 businesses that the government has
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Before the industrial revolution, women were effectively excluded from well-paid high-status occupations. This was due to the lack of access that women had to higher education. A case in point was Cambridge university which only fully validated degrees for women in late 1947. The change has long been coming and
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There are startups budding everywhere. Great companies that started just from an idea and now are building their empires that are huge and vast. With their growing consumer base and stand undistinguished in the market with their offerings promising consistency as brands. Mostly, women are just stereotyped into being homemakers.