{"id":17982,"date":"2018-10-11T06:22:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T06:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=17982"},"modified":"2018-10-11T06:22:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T06:22:22","slug":"india-wants-women-to-help-drive-its-tech-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=17982","title":{"rendered":"India wants women to help drive its tech boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">New Delhi (CNN Business)<\/cite>India has hardly any startups founded by women. The government and tech industry are hoping to change that, and create millions of jobs in the process.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Only about 8% to 10% of Indian entrepreneurs are women, according to a senior executive at India&#8217;s main tech industry body Nasscom. That&#8217;s far lower than the United States, where 39% of privately-held firms are owned by women, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/about.americanexpress.com\/sites\/americanexpress.newshq.businesswire.com\/files\/doc_library\/file\/2017_SWOB_Report_-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a> last year by American Express.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;Hopefully in the next three to four years time, the number of women entrepreneurs, technology-led, will be drastically changed,&#8221; KS Vishwanathan, vice president of industry initiatives at Nasscom, said at a conference in New Delhi on Tuesday.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi (CNN Business)India has hardly any startups founded by women. The government and tech industry are hoping to change that, and create millions of jobs in the process.Only about 8% to 10% of Indian entrepreneurs are women, according to a senior executive at India&#8217;s main tech industry body Nasscom. That&#8217;s far lower than the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":17983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}