What do women in the corporate and women entrepreneurs feel about Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s budget 2019? Here are some reactions.

In this new year conversations around work-life balance has been gaining a lot of traction, with people finally contemplating whether they should take it slow. For long, we have glamorised working hard and cruising to the top fast, along professional ladders, but it does come with a cost. Perhaps an increase in stress and anxiety level […]

“I didn’t set foot into a gym until I was 56. I was always too prissy to work out,” says 81-year-old bodybuilder Ernestine Shepherd, who with her exceptional physique, is inspiring others to hit the gym. A resident of Baltimore, US, Shepherd may be aged in the eyes of others, but weak she is not. […]

A study by researchers at Arizona University has affirmed Queen Bee Syndrome as a reality of cut-throat competition among women at the workplace. The study says that women reported higher levels of incivility from other women at their workplace, than their male counterparts. It also reports that women target their female counterparts challenge gender norms by […]

Chandra Gopalan, Director of Contours India, biggest chain of women’s gyms in the country, quit her job as regional manager of Swiss Air to pursue her passion as her profession. Chandra is the first senior woman to complete the 100 kilometres and a 24-hour run on the Bangalore Ultra. She loves running, it is a way of life […]

A yoga enthusiast who has also walked the ramp as a showstopper during the Dubai Fashion Weeks. Neetu Singh (37) earned the tag of being the most dynamic and fitness-driven person, whose style statement is Power Yoga.  She started up Total Yoga with co-founder Manish Pole. Currently, Total Yoga has centres in Bangalore, Pune, Delhi, Singapore […]

Chanda Kochhar, managing director and CEO of ICICI Bank, has recently been honoured with the Woodrow Wilson Award for Global Corporate Citizenship.

More than ever before, women today play many different roles in their lives. They are professionals, mothers, spouses, friends, caregivers of elderly relatives and volunteers in communities. Maintaining a balance between family and work is tough enough; to find time for yourself on top of that is nearly impossible. Spending all their time juggling your […]

I am a woman. I want to start up. Will I be judged based on my gender while raising funds? What could the men ask me? Will I get pregnant soon? Will they trust my instincts? Quite a familiar list of queries for rising women entrepreneurs as they set course to be part of the startup […]

2016 was the year we saw the rise of women entrepreneurs in India – new ideas were launched, some got funded, others got scaled. The story didn’t stop. StartUp India came to life through the government, and there were new efforts to promote women entrepreneurship across the income spectrum. Women Entrepreneurs have reached here on a wave […]