Women entrepreneurs face disadvantage in securing formal loans compared to men: GIM researchA Goa Institute of Management study reveals a gender gap in formal loan access for women entrepreneurs in India's unorganized sector. Howev...
17 Aug, 2025, 02.40 PM IST
India's gender budgeting progress: Are we truly empowering women?India's gender-responsive budgeting has increased allocations but lacks the necessary systemic reforms and mandatory frameworks across gove...
31 Jan, 2025, 10.53 PM IST
Breaking the bro code: Women in the Indian startup ecosystem call for accountability and change at the ET Soonicorns Summit 2024Jo Aggarwal, Shanti Mohan, Shally Modi, Minu Margeret, and Rashmi Daga shared a blueprint for enabling and empowering women in India’s male...
03 Oct, 2024, 04.14 PM IST
Breaking the glass ceiling: Trailblazing women leaders to share strategies to bridge gender funding gap at ET Soonicorns Summit 2024Join Shreyasi Singh, Shally Modi, Shanti Mohan, Minu Margeret, and Rashmi Daga at the ‘Women in the Indian Startup Ecosystem: Breaking Barr...
13 Sep, 2024, 03.28 PM IST
VC funding for women-led startups declined in 2023: reportA new report reveals a decline in VC funding for women-led businesses in India. According to WinPe, a non-profit organisation focused on ge...
16 May, 2024, 06.00 AM IST
Only 3% women entrepreneurs in tier 2-3 cities have access to external funding: studyMerely 3% of women entrepreneurs in India's tier II and III cities had access to bank loans or equity investments. The study highlighted th...
03 May, 2024, 03.46 PM IST
In depth: How can India's women-led startups beat gender funding gap?W hen Indian businesswoman Aditi Bhutia Madan recalls her childhood in Darjeeling, she remembers pine forests, Himalayan sunrises and her g...
28 Jun, 2023, 08.37 AM IST
Emerging markets such as China and India will grow old before they grow richEmerging markets are growing old before growing rich. EMs are where ageing is happening fastest. By 2050, EMs will be home to almost 80% of...
11 Jun, 2022, 11.52 AM IST
Here's how venture capital firms can reduce the gender gap in investingThe report outlines the current state of gender diversity in the PE and VC industry in India, the efficacy of different types of interventi...
01 Mar, 2022, 04.28 PM IST
Closing the gender gap in financing: Basic business friendly tools that can be adopted across the corporate worldWomen have lesser access to finance, regardless of who these women are, what they seek the funds for, and how they are accessing it.
04 Jan, 2022, 09.49 AM IST
Women face gender bias and unequal opportunities for career growth, say IIM alumni and studentsGender stereotyping and bias emerged as the key factors hindering the progress of women professionals, with 58% of the respondents saying t...
12 Mar, 2021, 09.57 AM IST
ET Evoke: Empowering women via employment boosts nation’s GDP & company’s profitability, says IMF HR bossKalpana Kochhar feels the pandemic threatens to roll back gains in women’s economic opportunities.
07 Nov, 2020, 11.39 AM IST
ET Women’s Forum: Urgent need for a gender-responsive recovery strategyIt can alleviate hardships and help nations & businesses bounce back faster from Covid crisis.
07 Sep, 2020, 09.23 AM IST
Women asset managers to control $72 trillion by 2020! Look what it meansIn Asia, women held just 12 per cent of board seats and 3 per cent of CEO positions.
07 Mar, 2019, 06.13 PM IST
ET Women's Forum: Why India needs her half a billion women to rise, and conquerThe crescendo for gender parity is gradually and undoubtedly building up, but a lot more action is urgently needed on the ground.
08 Jan, 2019, 07.05 PM IST
India should narrow gender gap in work force: IMF paperObserving that female labour force participation in India is lower than many other emerging market economies, it said the gender gap should...
16 Mar, 2015, 09.46 PM IST
- SAARC to discuss micro-finance to women
SAARC nations will meet here on Friday to discuss the issue of providing micro-finance to self-help groups of women.
26 Jul, 2007, 10.40 PM IST