Women No Longer Disabled in BRICs Boards as Ranks Swell
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When Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw set up Indian biotechnology company Biocon Ltd. in 1978, female entrepreneurs were so rare that she said a bank offered her credit under a special program meant mostly for the disabled and the country’s poorest castes.
“They had a very patronizing attitude toward women,” Mazumdar-Shaw said. “There was a cap on the amount of loans they were giving to women. I didn’t take it, of course.”