As governments limit women’s rights, Barbie emerged as a symbol not only of female empowerment but the necessity of fighting to recapture power that’s been taken away.
Forbes Power List 2021: Matilda Kullu, an Atribal ASHA worker from Odisha, has been named to Forbes India's W-Power 2021 list for her humanitarian cause.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Chairperson, In 1978, when I founded Biocon, I was India’s first qualified woman brew-master, yet no one was willing to offer me a job. Being a young woman, I had to be assertive to prove my worth at every point. I had no financial backing or business experience, and no banks were willing to give me loans without a collateral or my father’s guarantee, which I did not want. I was, as a 25-year-old, trying to pioneer a new sector, biotechnology, which no banker was familiar with. I was considered a huge investment risk. I was often advised to take on board my father as a business partner to facilitate the process. However, even though raising debt was extremely difficult, my perseverance brought me an angel investor who gave me the required funds to scale up my business against an equity stake in the company. Fortunately, today the startup ecosystem is well supported by venture capital firms.
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Roshni is also a trained classical musician.
Roshni is India s richest woman with a net worth of Rs 54,850 crore, as per Hurun list.
New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Biocon Founder Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw and HCL Enterprise CEO Roshni Nadar Malhotra have been named among the world s 100 most powerful women by Forbes 2020.
The women on the 17th annual Forbes Power List hail from 30 countries and were born across four generations that includes 10 heads of state, 38 CEOs and five entertainers.
Sitharaman is ranked 41st on the list, Nadar Malhotra comes in at the 55th spot, Mazumdar-Shaw described as India s richest self-made woman is ranked 68th and chairwoman of Landmark Group Renuka Jagtiani is ranked 98th.