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for their communities, and
products and services that
bring new value to the
world around them. “Having
diversity is better business.
It’s therefore a fiscal
responsibility of businesses to
their shareholders to balance
the gender gap in the labour
force.”
2- Manushi Chhillar , Miss
World 2017
High on the success of winning
this year’s Miss World title,
Manushi Chhillar was a star
guest at the summit. She said:
“I believe that women need to
be part of the entrepreneurship
ecosystem to enable prosperity
of the society.”
3- Cherie Blair , founder,
Cherie Blair foundation
“We have to find solutions
so women can do better at
what they do without giving
up on their enterprises.
Capacity, confidence and
capital are the three things
women entrepreneurs need to
flourish,” said Cherie Blair. Her
organisation works with non-
profit, private and public sector
organisations to empower
women to gain financial
independence.
resistance, and ensure that
you start feeling comfortable,
and when people start
accepting you, you move
on to conquer new frontiers.
That’s the way every field
works, and it’s the same way
entrepreneurship work.”
5- Sania Mirza , tennis star
Sania Mirza said sport needed
to given utmost priority so that
women could play a crucial
role in bringing India on top of
the sport tally. “While wrapping
sport in the golden wrapper of
a film might help, we need to
love it for India to become a
sporting nation.”
4- Gopichand Pullela , head 6- MD Gopal Sri , TVS
coach, India badminton team
Gopichand Pullela said
whenever there’s an idea of
change, whenever there’s
new thinking happening it
was always confronted by
resistance. “It’s important
to sustain that period of Capital chairman and MD
Talking on the sideline of
the event, Gopal Sri gave a
word of advice to the budding
women entrepreneurs. “My
best investments have always
been on companies led by
women. So my call to action
for them is just be great
entrepreneurs, forget about
gender inequality and be the
best in what you do,” he said.
7- Harsha Bhogle , cricket
commentator
During a conversation on
‘The Business of Winning
Sports Entrepreneurship’,
Harsha Bhogle said the
biggest stakeholders in the
empowerment of women were
men, so they were the one
who needed to come forward
and support women from the
front. “I have long held a view
that the next big burst in the
Indian economy will come
when women will start playing
far more active role.” Talking
about women in sport, he said
“at the heart of any sport is the
number of people playing it.
Therefore, it is essential that
more women join sport”
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