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Women in entrepreneurship: India ranks in the bottom 3 out of 43 countries surveyed

Angola tops the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2020-2021 list, while Italy ranked at number 43, last one the list in terms of female activity in entrepreneurship; top motivations to start a business in India for men and women founders include scarcity of jobs or to make a difference in the world

By Samidha Jain, Forbes India Staff

Infographics By Kapil Kashyap

Published: Aug 3, 2021 01:24:35 PM IST

Updated: Aug 3, 2021 01:24:55 PM IST

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Samidha graduated with a bachelor’s in mass media from Sophia College, Mumbai, right before joining Forbes India, where she writes about various startups across industries, and also works on News by Numbers–a way of news story-telling through infographics. She is also part of the web team which oversees social media and organizes various annual events for the publication. Samidha is a film buff and enjoys all kinds of cinema–all the way from cringy bollywood films to those of Tarkovsky.

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