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Page 4 - Women Entrepreneurs

Google partners with Sheroes to support 500 rural women entrepreneurs

Last year, the tech major had started a small pilot for an accelerator programme for 10 women entrepreneurs in rural India across its Internet Saathi network

Google partners with Sheroes to support 500 rural women entrepreneurs
Updated On : 21 Dec 2020 | 11:40 PM IST

Covid impact: Women workforce disappearing, most affected in urban India

Women entrepreneurs are struggling to survive, women employed as domestic help in cities, at construction sites and in call centres, and in handicraft and retail units, have lost jobs

Covid impact: Women workforce disappearing, most affected in urban India
Updated On : 15 Dec 2020 | 10:41 AM IST

Covid impact: Women-founded tech startups see funding drop 24% in H1FY20

Amid Covid-19, funding for women-founded startups in India fell 24 per cent to $280 million in the first half of this year, compared to $369 million in the same period last year, said a new report

Covid impact: Women-founded tech startups see funding drop 24% in H1FY20
Updated On : 29 Oct 2020 | 5:44 PM IST

Alibaba Group's 'most influential woman' to get $5 bn richer on Ant IPO

The co-founder of the e-commerce giant rarely speaks in public and is little known outside of China, but over the past two decades she's played a key role guiding Jack Ma's empire

Alibaba Group's 'most influential woman' to get $5 bn richer on Ant IPO
Updated On : 28 Oct 2020 | 10:44 PM IST

India's women entrepreneurs quickly changed business for survival: Survey

Women-owned businesses saw a sharp decline in revenue: 73 per cent reported being negatively impacted by the pandemic, and almost 20 per cent were nearly wiped out

India's women entrepreneurs quickly changed business for survival: Survey
Updated On : 16 Oct 2020 | 3:37 PM IST

Housework burden just got heavier for women entrepreneurs in pandemic

Domestic responsibilities emerged second only to weak demand as major obstacle to running a business: Report

Housework burden just got heavier for women entrepreneurs in pandemic
Updated On : 15 Oct 2020 | 1:09 AM IST

Policymakers discuss ways to address gender gap in STI Policy 2020

Several issues in terms of the low institutional mechanism to nurture women innovators, age-barrier issues, leaky pipeline, funding for women-led start-ups, leadership, gender bias were deliberated up

Policymakers discuss ways to address gender gap in STI Policy 2020
Updated On : 22 Sep 2020 | 10:15 PM IST

UP to promote start-up ventures of women, transgender entrepreneurs

The state has created a Rs 1,000 crore start-up fund to be managed by Sidbi

UP to promote start-up ventures of women, transgender entrepreneurs
Updated On : 21 Aug 2020 | 6:42 PM IST

Niti Aayog working to champion cause of women entrepreneurship: Kant

"We have seen instances of women leaders carrying the communities they work with along with them, helping them grow and develop as well," he said

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Updated On : 09 Aug 2020 | 8:37 PM IST

Facebook, N/Core to empower women entrepreneurs with its CSR initiative

Facebook Pragati will award four grants of up to Rs 50 lakh for each non-profit to scale their work

Facebook, N/Core to empower women entrepreneurs with its CSR initiative
Updated On : 11 Mar 2020 | 9:17 PM IST

Tinder pledges up to $1mn in free in-app ads for women entrepreneurs

The firm is inviting applications from companies where at least 50 per cent of the founding team are women or identify as women

Tinder pledges up to $1mn in free in-app ads for women entrepreneurs
Updated On : 08 Mar 2020 | 1:48 AM IST

More action than noise on Women's Day?

The PM's clarion call acted as a starter gun for various governmental agencies, galvanising them to action

More action than noise on Women's Day?
Updated On : 08 Mar 2020 | 1:48 AM IST

Sheroes offers social commerce, credit; aims to become 100 mn women network

Founded in 2014 by entrepreneur Sairee Chahal, Sheroes network has become one of the largest employment generators for women in the country

Sheroes offers social commerce, credit; aims to become 100 mn women network
Updated On : 27 Jan 2020 | 10:01 PM IST

A programme that gives women hands-on training to be entrepreneurs

In a bid to bridge gender diversity in the business world, an entrepreneurial programme for women is providing hands on training on the tricks of the trade, writes Sneha Bhattacharjee

A programme that gives women hands-on training to be entrepreneurs
Updated On : 15 Sep 2019 | 9:30 AM IST

At 52nd spot, India far behind US, China in parity for women entrepreneurs

India's rank remained unchanged from previous year at 52, significantly behind the United States (4th) and China (29th)

At 52nd spot, India far behind US, China in parity for women entrepreneurs
Updated On : 07 Mar 2018 | 8:57 PM IST

Powering women entrepreneurs

Gender bias is a key suppressor of their potential, and a complicated one to address

Powering women entrepreneurs
Updated On : 28 Dec 2017 | 10:45 PM IST

Women to represent 52% entrepreneurs at GES in Hyderabad: Amitabh Kant

The GES in Hyderabad will be co-hosted by India and the US

Women to represent 52% entrepreneurs at GES in Hyderabad: Amitabh Kant
Updated On : 18 Nov 2017 | 11:48 PM IST

Bengaluru ranks 40 among top 50 cities for women entrepreneurs: Dell

The only other Indian city in the tally is Delhi, that at the 49th spot, just ahead of Jakarta

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Updated On : 28 Jul 2017 | 1:03 PM IST

Govt to launch exclusive scheme for women entrepreneurs

It might be launched before the end of the financial year

Govt to launch exclusive scheme for women entrepreneurs
Updated On : 07 Jan 2017 | 6:49 PM IST

Women ahead in key emotional intelligence competencies

Women score higher than men on nearly all emotional intelligence competencies, except emotional self-control, where no gender differences are observed, according to new research by the Hay Group division of global people and organisational advisory firm Korn Ferry. Data from 55,000 professionals across 90 countries and all levels of management, collected between 2011 and 2015 by using the Emotional and Social Competency Inventory - developed by Richard E Boyatzis, Daniel Goleman and Hay Group - found that women more effectively employ the emotional and social competencies correlated with effective leadership and management than men. The greatest difference between the sexes can be seen in emotional self-awareness, where women are 86 per cent more likely than men to be seen as using the competency consistently (18.4 per cent demonstrate it compared to just 9.9 per cent of men). Also, women are 45 per cent more likely than men to be seen as demonstrating empathy consistently. The smalles

Women ahead in key emotional intelligence competencies
Updated On : 14 Mar 2016 | 12:06 AM IST