Women make up about 56 % of the workforce in almost all sectors. They contribute more than a third to their economies and have the potential to lead the world towards greater good. Yet they are often targets of deep rooted gender bias. Many skillful women disappeared in to oblivion when less deserving male colleagues were favored to climb up the progress ladder.

Women make up about 56 % of the workforce in almost all sectors. They contribute more than a third to their economies and have the potential to lead the world towards greater good. Yet they are often targets of deep rooted gender bias. Many skillful women disappeared in to oblivion when less deserving male colleagues were favored to climb up the progress ladder.

Women are often subjected to gender bias at work and business. They are given roles which emphasize gender differences and their progress is often shunned by their superiors. In service oriented industries, women are given slow growing profiles which get them no where after years of toil. Even the best of them must have experienced bias at some point. There is a call for change now and it is getting stronger at all levels. Some policy changes have brought much required relief to the business woman.

Women are undoubtedly the fastest growing group of entrepreneurs in the world and very important to its economy. They are starting businesses at a faster rate than men. Their familial roles as primary caretakers for most of the world's children and elderly are not hampering them. But women don't just want to clean up the mess that men make. The recent global economic crisis is being attributed to male bankers. Due to this crisis many Women owned businesses which are small had to bear the brunt.

Many resources like education are not accessible to women in a good number of countries. The efforts to bring change have only benefited a few and a lot more has to be done to make the society all inclusive.

Many countries argue that development and the needs of the community must come first, rather than providing a preferential focus on women's development needs and their rights. Hence, women will not only lack business management skills but also business development/marketing skills and a business network.

Women bring a vision that is to be acknowledged and valued and hence it is time to place women's empowerment in business back into the framework of gender equality, where it has always belonged.

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