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India needs more women finance professionals

In the new economy, home is also a workspace. Because a household is a microcosm of an economy, women have had the training ground to build intuitive understanding of saving, investing and liquidity

Shinjini Kumar, co-founder of SALT.one
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Shinjini Kumar, co-founder of SALT.one

Shinjini Kumar
I am looking for women. More specifically, women fund managers, traders, bankers, insurers, regulators, and financial intermediaries — the full stack. What do we have? The top is famous, the middle is thin and the pipeline is embarrassing. I am looking at advertisements. The women are making dreams of their departed husbands into reality, buying gold, or running a “small” business.
 
Event-preview of the new Paytm campaign introducing the QR code: A bike pulls over at a gas station and the young man takes out his phone to scan the code. The girl on pillion pouts. The boy says,