Punam Khalkho, 25, was just a housewife before she joined a Sakhi Mandal (Women Self Help Groups), in her village Mudpiri under Burmu Block of Ranchi. JHARKHAND: Punam Khalkho, 25, was just a housewife before she joined a Sakhi Mandal (Women Self Help Groups), in her village Mudpiri under Burmu Block of Ranchi. Now, she …
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Ravina Anand and Michelle Kwok, two recently graduated Canadian students, launched FLIK, the first female-focused apprenticeship portal, allowing verified female talent to apprentice under innovative female founders and leaders across the world. The mission of the Female Laboratory of Innovative Knowledge is to advance women’s economic participation and accelerate women-led ventures globally, the company said …
Football Trailblazers: With soccer taking off, the US women’s national team needed a poster girl and a leader. In Hamm it found both Nike founder and chairman Phil Knight was once asked to pick three athletes that he believed had played sport to such a high level that they added a new dimension to their …
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As the world waivers in economic uncertainty, Black women still have the courage and audacity to bet on themselves. Black women are one of the fastest growing groups of entrepreneurs and business owners in the country, but their ideas and ventures are historically financially underfunded. A 2018 report conducted by American Express found that women-owned businesses …
Delhi-based Anisha Singh (42), founder of online coupons platform Mydala and venture capital fund SheCapital, calls herself an ‘accidental entrepreneur.’ After having witnessed financial hardships as a child, there was one thing she was sure of: to have a stable job with a big pay cheque. Her father, an ex-serviceman, had started his real estate …
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