India's 10 Most Powerful Business Women


BANGALORE: Indian women constitute 29 percent of the total work force and the number of working women in urban areas is nearly half as that of working women in rural areas. Even in a workforce in an organized sector, where women have a sizeable presence, the number of women tends to dwindle as you go up the corporate ladder. But, hold your horses! Not everything is gloomy here. There are enough women, who with their ambition, hard work and dedication are breaking the glass ceiling. The Fortune Magazine lists few such women in its compilation of India’s most powerful women in business, who have shown the way to other women. Let’s meet few of them.

Chanda Kochchar: The CEO and MD of ICICI bank-India’s largest private sector bank- features in the list of most powerful business women for the third time in a row. She joined the bank in 1984 as a management trainee after completing MBA from JBIMS. She went on to become the deputy managing director in April 2006. At various points in her career, she held positions such as the joint managing director, chief financial officer and the official spokesperson of ICICI before occupying the top position at the bank. She said this while reflecting on her career, “What it required on my part was to really give to the job whatever it took. So yes, there were children at home, but if the job demands travel, hard work, long hours of work, I think you need to give it.”

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