A comprehensive study was recently published by Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship (GAME), on entrepreneurship opportunities for women in India, especially home-based entrepreneurs across urban India. GAME, a partner-led platform…
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Indian Women Network holds women entrepreneurship conference in Bhopal
A conference for women entrepreneurs was held on December 14th in Madhya Pradesh, with the theme, ‘Women in Business: #Bringing Change’. The conference was organised by the Indian Women Network (IWN)…
Punjab govt announces Rs 100-cr MSME marketing cell to promote startups
The two-day long Progressive Punjab Investors Summit-2019 reached its conclusion on Friday, with a bright future for the state’s industrial sector. The state government announced that it would take several…
Number of women on boards of Indian companies doubles, but still negligible
According to a study of the Bloomberg data on the gender composition of boards of 91 companies on the BSE-100 index, the median number of women on Indian boards has…
First-ever National Startup Awards 2020 launched by DPIIT
With the goal of encouraging and supporting innovation and disruption in the Indian startup ecosystem, the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), on Friday, invited applications for…
Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) launches Women Entrepreneurship Cell
The Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) has launched a new initiative to mentor students from an institute in West Bengal, with the aim of creating a new line…
BDC Study shows more than one-fourth of Canadian entrepreneurs are women
A new report published by the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) states that women make up 28 per cent of all entrepreneurs in the country. According to the study,…
Women entrepreneurs reclaiming their ‘Bragging’ rights in the global market
In today’s highly competitive entrepreneurial market, the gender disbalance is still starkly evident. While more and more women are stepping out of their professional journeys and stepping into a business…
India sees 2.1% rise in women salaried workers: NSO Survey
India saw a marginal rise in regular wage earners and salaried employees in its urban workforce between April-June 2018 and January-March 2019, from 48.3% to 50%, as per the latest…
‘Deshi MBA’ programme empowering rural India’s women entrepreneurs
Vanita Salunkhe has been running her cloth bag manufacturing unit in Degaon village in Satara for almost eight years. This year, she completed the one-year ‘Deshi MBA’ programme run by…