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Top Women at India Banks Prove ICICI CEO Factory Gender Neutral
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ICICI Bank Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Chanda Kochhar says it doesn’t seem so long ago that she was worrying that she wouldn’t be able to handle her job at what’s now India’s largest nongovernment lender while managing her household and caring for her infant son.
“I’d taken my maternity leave and come back,” says Kochhar, 49, munching on a salad in the top-floor executive dining room of the bank’s 11-story Mumbai headquarters. “I found it a little difficult.”