 The next we will, I will reverse the Sikonaviru to make our presentation. We will be contributing a kind of thing so that we can have some time for discussion also. So, very good afternoon and thank you once again for the understanding of the university for inviting me. And I do apologize to an instrument created some confusion in between where I said I will not be there The last yesterday when my program was cancelled, I again proved people yes. Because as Chandrana mentioned, women, something to do with women is subject very close to my heart. And as far as possible I tried to, especially when one page of my life is already over, I worked with again in some entrepreneurship come out and now on a different organization and give as much as time for mentoring of women. I mentor mostly women entrepreneurs, but women in general. So, definitely when I work with women as Chandrana mentioned in something I thought I would definitely like to give my time here. A very apt topic being taken up, we need to discuss, deliberate and understand what is it, why women are not coming, are women not coming in large numbers, are women not getting into leadership roles. But these are questions which we really need to debate, discuss and have our own perspectives on that. Definitely at least we are somewhat repeating what Chandrana has said because as women when you reach a particular position you face the same challenges. And I think most women would be facing a lot of challenges yet. In spite of all challenges there are women who have excel. We have large number of examples of women who have excel. So the percentage may be less, but since they have excel definitely it's not just the country all the time, maybe the environment or the ecosystem. Let's look at the ecosystem first. When we say the ecosystem, what do we understand? We understand that a lot of the major factors which is influencing what we do in life as a women. So there is this, your family. She was talking about conditioning. We get conditioned by the society, by the family. So that's a part of the ecosystem when we grow up. So definitely that has a role as to what values are inviting us, what are the do's and don'ts which are constantly told to us by the time knowingly, unknowingly by the society. Few points which we already mentioned about when is the time to get married, when is the time to have a child. So I think today's society has the pressure on women is even more today because you are supposed to be super human. And I particularly when we talk about empowerment, is it only economic empowerment or is it also emotional empowerment, intellectual empowerment. So we have to look at the emotional empowerment, intellectual empowerment which is so very important. So let me just give now most of the jobs where people who are sitting here are from the next generation. Now when I look at you, I sometimes I think when mothers they talk about their doctors being educated, giving them all the facilities to have their education etc. and the time comes they say that no, it's time now to come back. I've seen a lot of my friends whose doctors have really done well, got a job in the corporate sector elsewhere but the mother would say that now maybe you need your job, come and do something here because now's the time to get married. Then she gets married, after some time again as she said it's time to have a child. So what are we trying to do with the doctor? What are we trying to do with the doctor? So that's the sort of conditioning which has an impact on us definitely. Then as we go to work, it's the work environment. We are lucky if the environment is more women-friendly not always particularly in the corporate, it's a cultural competition everywhere. Things are definitely changing now because the corporate sector is getting more inclusive but nevertheless unruly biases are there particularly in various governments and that's a little more and unknowingly it's there and then I always used to say our women often has to be more than a man to be proved that she's equal to a man. So that is some sort of a thing which I don't know when you hear about from others so that is one experience I always have. We consider people you have to be a little more than a man otherwise you are. Most of our biases are always there but the bias which is there is also on us to break that. For example, let me give an example when I was with me getting into entrepreneurship so we used to have a lot of events so whenever there was an event when the responsibility was shared amongst all the faculty who were there it would always say that we were two women faculty then because all of us were men then you know, putting the TAMUSA putting the class is always of women's responsibility she has to look nice, wear a nice make-up and then come finish in the entire time rest of the duties would be done by the airport, putting up the TXI by name so I protested then so I immediately said I'm not good at all this so I have to take some other responsibility and then someone who is good at taking care of all these things can take care of it. So it's also the voice that we have we have a voice so it's important for us to be also what I said you know empowered. Empowerment, let us look at empowerment from a broader perspective what's empowerment empowerment has a lot of other ones it's not just economic empowerment again I would share something which Chandranath already shared shared this as well I think this is a must read for every girl women work at the will to work it's eating in women work at the will to work women empowerment she very nicely defines by saying it's like a chicken and egg problem it says that once the external barriers are broken women will be empowered the second man also said we need more women in leadership positions so that the barriers are broken isn't it a chicken and egg problem so a lot of owners also lies in what I would say because the ecosystem or the environment will not immediately change yes there are attempts to change but then it's also on us do we have the aspiration are we empowered so this is something I don't know I would like to ask what do you think what do you think don't you think a lot of things are also on us remember what I said there are women who have done well women who have but again we look at the fortune 500 companies out of the 500 companies the latest figure states that only 28 have reached the zero position look at positions in which women have led organizations the percentage would be very less what could be the reason yes definitely there are so many issues like you don't have to have your family your child if you take a second seat sometimes you you know a delicately opt for something that you know will give you less responsibility because you have no other option sometimes you give the job take a break then you come back how much seriously you come back issues but then I feel it's a lot we have to be our own sort of masters here it's very very important let me talk from my experience since I in our world last movie 20-25 years we mostly with entrepreneurs and when we say entrepreneurs we have a lot of women entrepreneurs and Nantes has women entrepreneurs are more compared to the rest of the country but again in the I talked about the corporate space look at the entrepreneur space although the numbers are much more than the national average but if you look at the size of enterprises the type of enterprises which are led by the women you will find that women are mostly in you know clustered around certain sectors when we say women entrepreneurs what are the sectors which come to your mind hydromanicraft beauty then tailoring beauty parlour beauty parlour please sit down all over the Nantes so there I found only this sector and this is very true that though the number is very high in Nantes but the earning is very low so it is also you know why am I deciding only on these sectors is it a comfort level and what happens when I am only concentrating on few sectors women are not taken seriously women are not taken seriously they would mostly be said that they are women entrepreneurs so you do an exhibition so you will find all those exhibitions coming in all various senses that is not again women are not taken seriously there what about not getting into other sectors what about not getting into technology I am seeing from my experience even if I am from a technology background when I am part of women I am not talking about there is nothing wrong in that that is one the second point I am talking about entrepreneurship as a profession this is where we need to really think seriously is there an aspiration deficit is there an aspiration deficit amongst women and then we try to put it across that because of the environment because my husband is not cooperating so my dad is also cooperating so I am not being able to excuse somewhere I am trying to push a lot of women they are very happy some little audience is coming in so I am at it there society that I am earning something and that is enough for me so these are issues which we have to really look at and ask ourselves questions like you know what I would like to say is I think I am already crossing my limits but the owners is not on us any challenge which comes in and I converted that into an opportunity I have done that all my life and I think anyone who tries to make a little mark of a digital particular position is always that a woman needs the respect of which ever the respect of which ever profession you are so that is the message I already get an indication from charity that I need to go close here so thank you so much Thank you Baidu for this excellent insights we have had two things one was on ecosystem and Baidu was also talking about it is one part of the story of the ecosystem and at the same time of the impact to us to find out what are the issues that are preventing us