Here´s How Indian Women Entrepreneurs Can Have Level Playing Field
(WorldNews Business)

Arundhati Bhattacharya, the former SBI Chairperson and presently Chairperson of the board of SWIFT India, has bemoaned the fact that women suffer from two major handicaps in their endeavour to becoming entrepreneurs - the inability to raise equity, and the inability to offer collaterals for loans. She then went on to say only about 19 percent of entrepreneurs in India were women, out of which many were `figure heads´, and it was actually the men who were driving from `behind´. What she said is uncomfortably true, though some might shrug off the state of affairs as not being unique to India. Many countries are indeed muscularly patriarchal. Nordic nations have however bucked the trend. In...