siliconindia | | November 20184Seeing a woman sacrifi cing a job to take care of her family is an outdated story now. Today's women are the wonder women who run the show from the front, whether it is personal or professional. Having learnt to create an equilibrium between the two, they are today more empowered. But there still is a long way to go.Though India has successfully pulled a considerable number of its population out of poverty, it ranked 120 among 131 countries in female workforce participation rate. According to a recent report by World Bank, at 17 percent GDP, Indian women's economic contribution is less than half the global average. But looking at the changing scenario and the rapid success stories Indian women entrepreneurs are creating, we can soon catch-up with the world. What is needed is to bring their success stories to the front that will encourage more women to join the bandwagon. Taking a step towards making this change happen, siliconindia brings to you stories of few such women entrepreneurs who are leading the way for others to follow. While talking to them, we realized that their are few things common to their success, like their determination to make a change not only for themselves, but also for many by providing them earning opportunities to take their family out of poverty. Read to know more about their struggle, their determination and the role of their family to help them be what they are today.Do let us know what you think!! Anamika SahuManaging Editoreditor@siliconindia.comEditorialMaking the Difference Possible siliconindia Vol 07 · Issue 4 - 2 · November 2018 Publisher Alok Chaturvedi Managing Editor Anamika Sahu Associate Editor Susila Govindaraj Editorial Team Ananth.V Imelda Tarzarina John Roshan Anto Krupa P. Dave Shefali Mathur Sophia Rohtagi Sujith Vasudevan Sushruth R Srrayvinya OLM Trisha Pragya Younus Ahmad Dar VP - Sales & Marketing Virupakshi Pattar Advertising Managers Editorial queries editor@siliconindia.com To subscribe Visit https://www.siliconindiamagazine.com/subscribe/ or send email to subscription@siliconindia.com Cover price is Rs.150 per issue. Printed and Published By Alok Chaturvedi on behalf of SiliconMedia Technologies Pvt Ltd and Printed at Precision Fototype Services at Sri Sabari Shopping Complex, 24 Residency Road Bangalore-560025 and Published At No. 124, 2nd Floor, Surya Chambers, Old Airport Road, Murugeshpalya, Bangalore-560017. Editor Alok ChaturvediCopyright © 2018 SiliconMedia Technologies Pvt Ltd, All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher.advertise@siliconindia.comVisualisers Manjunath Mohana KrishnanGroup Art DirectorAshok Kumar NoidaGarima Anand Ashu Sethi Circulation Manager Magendran PerumalAnamika Sahu Ameet Kumar Sahu Kavitha Sambit Satpathy Shivanshu Sekhar Patel
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