India may be among the fastest growing economies in the world but when it comes to women in the top management or having successful independent business-women it remains far behind even many developing economies in the world.

From falling behind in meeting SEBI’s regulatory norm of getting at least one woman on the board of directors in Indian companies to nurturing entrepreneurship, India lags in both.

According to 2016 WE (Women Entrepreneurs) Cities Index formed by Dell, Delhi is the only city, ranked 22nd, among the 25 top global cities chosen from the list of 50 global cities in the Dell Future Ready Economies (FRE) Model.

Delhi (India) lags behind even its comparable or closest peers including Beijing, Hong Kong, Taipei, Shanghai, Mexico, Sao Paulo (Brazil) and Seoul. New York, the San Francisco Bay Area, London, Stockholm and Singapore are the top five cities for high-potential women entrepreneurs, according to the index. 

In 2016, Dell changed the criteria for ranking in terms of cities rather than countries done in the past, to show the impact of local policies and programmes in addition to national laws and customs. India’s ranking has been continuously slipping for the last three years prior to 2016.

In 2015, India stood at 29 and was just ahead of Pakistan and Bangladesh, which were ramked lowest among the 31 companies ranked. India not only lagged its peers such as Mexico, China, Brazil and Russia, but even smaller countries including Malaysia, Thailand were ahead at rank 21 and 22 respectively. The US topped the list followed by Canada, Australia, Sweden and the UK in terms of ranking based on countries.

India’s ranking stood at 16 and 26 in 2013 and 2014 respectively. Not only this, India’s score has consistently deteriorated from 32 in 2013 to 26 in 2014 to 17 in 2015. For 2016, Dell has only ranked cities and not given any score. Year 2013 was the first time Dell formed an index for women entrepreneurship.

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