women empowerment

By 2040, more than 1 million women in India run at a risk of succumbing to uterine cancer. This initiative, Ganga Godavari Cancer Screening Program, is trying to help the country steer clear of that fate.

Runjun Begum from Assam was married at 16 and physically abused after giving birth to two daughters. But this didn’t deter her from starting her own business that empowers other women and makes her financially independent.

Entrepreneur Popularises Bastar’s Mahua as Healthy Snacks, Employs 350 Rural Women

Krishnan Subramanian and Gowri Gopinath quit their jobs to return to Madurai and start YellowBag, an eco-friendly venture that sells the traditional Manjapai, or yellow bags, to encourage people to switch to cloth bags.

Nand Kishore Chaudhary recalls his journey of establishing Jaipur Rugs, manufacturer of hand-knotted rugs and carpets, and how he overcame several odds to empower women who were considered ‘untouchable’, helping them earn better through weaving.

Dr Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, the founder of the country's leading biotechnology enterprise Biocon, has strived to bring more women into the field while providing accessible medicines to all.

A unique initiative by Tata Communications and The Better India to support and educate women from small towns and villages in India is helping hundreds of others like Laxmi overcome barriers and become entrepreneurs. Here’s how.

Navjot Sawhney innovated a low-cost, unique washing machine after seeing the plight of his friend Divya. Today, the machine is a ray of hope for women of Iraq’s Mamrashan Refugee Camp and rural India.

Anirban and Polumi Nandy run Live Life Happily NGO, which as helped thousands of women across Siliguri earn more with mushroom farming, encouraging them to be financially independent

Anandibai Joshi, Kadambini Ganguly, Rukhmabai Raut, Haimabati Sen, Muthulakshmi Reddy and Mary Poonen Lukose – written out of history, India’s first women doctors were trailblazers.