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In the Balance: Innovators - Female Entrepreneurs

Innovators - Female Entrepreneurs

28/10/2017 GMT

BBC World Service - In the Balance, Innovators - Female Entrepreneurs

Why are more women not in the workplace in South Asia?

How entrepreneurship can help women into work

Could starting up a business be the best way into work for more women across South Asia?  Shivaani Kohok asks why only one in four women in India have paid jobs and what's holding them back from entering the workplace. She's joined by three women working with entrepreneurs across South  Asia.

(Picture: A mother and baby treated by the Sehat Kahani healthtech business)

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