PMMY drives micro enterprise growth, boosts women-led businesses in IndiaIndia's Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana has empowered countless micro-enterprises. This scheme provides collateral-free credit, fostering growt...
08 Apr, 2026, 12.40 PM IST
More women among next gen investors? Marcellus outlines trends from India’s new investment landscapeIndian women are experiencing a significant transformation, excelling in education and increasingly participating in the workforce and entr...
06 Mar, 2026, 04.54 PM IST
Women's employment rate nearly doubled to 40.3 pc in last seven yearsIndia has seen a big jump in women joining the workforce. The number of employed women almost doubled between 2017 and 2024. Unemployment a...
25 Aug, 2025, 07.46 PM IST
Women-run MSMEs avail over Rs 400 cr of loans in FY23: ReportWomen-run micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) have availed loans worth Rs 430 crore, accounting for 24 per cent of the overall loans...
17 Aug, 2023, 11.57 AM IST
ET Career Talks: Learn first-hand from The Good Glamm Group’s Naiyya Saggi on what it takes to grow as an entrepreneur and leaderET Career Talks is a unique programme designed to help young professionals unlock their full potential. In this session of ET Career Talks,...
12 May, 2023, 02.18 PM IST
More women seek entrepreneurship opportunities during pandemic, shows LinkedIn dataGrowth rate of female entrepreneurs surpasses male entrepreneurs, up by 2.68x between 2016 to 2021.
14 Jul, 2022, 11.41 AM IST
Encouraging women entrepreneurs could be the key to spurring India's economy onwardClearly, there isn't a better time than now to be an entrepreneur in India and a good time to ensure that many more women entrepreneurs are...
08 Mar, 2022, 12.28 AM IST
The thing that's holding back Indian women entrepreneursMore than 80% of women entrepreneurs run solo ventures and about 86% such women-owned businesses are self-funded, GAME said in a recent stu...
26 Aug, 2020, 08.48 AM IST
Karnataka government launches programme for student entrepreneursThe programme is part of Karnataka Innovation and Technology Society (KITS) and is called E-Step.
12 Aug, 2019, 05.55 PM IST
'More students open to entrepreneurship as livelihood option'The study surveyed 10,809 final year undergraduate students, including 6,269 male and 4,540 female students covering 28 cities, 28 small to...
29 Nov, 2017, 02.16 PM IST
NIELIT starts 'Power of She' programme to encourage women entrepreneurshipUnder this initiative, over 200 female students from NIELIT Centres spread across different geographical locations participated through the...
19 Jul, 2017, 09.13 PM IST
IIM Bangalore joins hands with Goldman Sachs to launch programme for women entrepreneursThe programme aims to help women think of, create and initiate new ventures by providing them with early training, handholding through ment...
15 Nov, 2016, 12.44 AM IST
Lesser women in workforce: Assocham calls for remedial actionThe number of working women in India in 2000-05 jumped to 37 per cent from the 34 per cent earlier, but it has been on a downhill ever sinc...
26 Jun, 2016, 10.23 PM IST
Startup ecosystem stronger now: SurveyThe Amway India Entrepreneurship Report 2015 shows over two-third Indians view entrepreneurship positively.
28 Apr, 2016, 11.15 AM IST
Women entrepreneurs get a raw deal in IndiaA report said there was a finance gap of Rs 6.37 lakh crore when it came to meeting requirements of women entrepreneurs in MSME sector.
25 Jun, 2015, 10.36 AM IST
Flexible working breeds innovation among employees: RegusMore and more businesses are realizing the importance of nurturing some of their employees as entrepreneurs to help drive growth.
14 Apr, 2014, 05.16 PM IST
- Women drive scooter sales--and social progress
At its core, more women scooter drivers criss-crossing the country indicate far greater independent mobility for women, easily able to driv...
04 Jul, 2012, 09.17 AM IST