Status of Professional Businesswomen in India

In the past, the Indian traditions followed from ages never allowed a ‘Woman’ to rule the business world like her male counterpart could. In this country, women play a prominent role in the well-being of her family. It may be due to this reason, Indian Women were discouraged from holding high managerial roles of the corporate world over the last decades.

The courage and determination exhibited by many enterprising women of the country to revolt the traditional rules has helped ‘Indian Women’ find a more respectable status in the society and encouraged the new generation to follow. Currently, India is undergoing the feminist phase that U.S. went through during the early ‘70s. The advent of globalization encourages educated middle class women to take up opportunities to build her own dreams and excel in professions which were earlier perceived as complete male domain.

Although it’s quite ironic that ours is a nation where maternal mortality rates are among the worst in the world, yet the country can boast of the world’s largest number of professionally qualified women when compared with developed countries.

I would personally state the impact of the increased role of the private sector, the IT boom and the increase in the number of MNCs that have sprung up all over the country are among the notable reasons behind the success of the professional businesswoman of the country-in both professional and public sphere.