Mazumdar Shaw, Kiran - Building Gender Balanced Business

• Bangalore firm, begun as a start-up in a garage, is a listed biotech company with revenues of $260 million last year

• Trained as a brewmaster, to follow in her father’s footsteps, Mazumdar Shaw could not find work in India, so she turned to developing Biocon, overcoming difficulties in gaining loans based on her gender

• Mazumdar Shaw told the FT that sex discrimination against her disappeared in the early 1990s once Biocon became successful

• “I tell young women not to give up. When you overcome challenges it makes you more confident”

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