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Created by : Adrija , Assistant manager finance , HDFC Bank  | 10 15 2010 07:33:52 +0000
Industry : Hedge Funds/VCs/Private EquityFunctional Area : Getting Started(Entrepreneurship)
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A recent post which I saw in a website "Women Don’t Want To Run Startups Because They’d Rather Have Children" was an intriguing one and one which brought picture of women entrepreneurs in my mind, because Women mostly are considered as home makers and one who takes care of the family. And this is the default picture of women which comes into everybody's mind. What do you think people, Are women better at raising their kids than going for a startup?? share your thoughts on this...

 
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think the idea of women having a startup with young kids. It is absolutely untenable. The women I know who do this have lost their companies or their marriages or both. And there is no woman running a startup with young kids, who, behind closed doors, would recommend this life to anyone.

For men it’s different. We all know that men do not search all over town finding the perfect partner. Men are more likely to settle when it comes to raising kids. The kids are fine. Men are more likely than women to think they themselves are doing a good job parenting. This makes sense from an evolutionary perspective. Men have to trust that the kids will be okay so that they can leave and go get food or do something else for the family. But women find a lot difficult with taking care of kids and a company where employees look up to you to do things for them, and here she will get lost and problem arises in the family....So yes, women are better at raising kids than going for a startup...


By Adrija , Assistant manager finance , HDFC Bank  10 15 2010 07:33:52 +0000
 
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There is a poem in Telugu stating "is there any art women can not learn, if properly trained" and if you see their life, they are good at multi tasking. In fact they are much better than men in multi tasking. I have colleagues, who leave their 2-3 yr old children with grand parents and attend jobs and excel at work. They excel even at parenting also. There may be one or two exceptions, but my feeling is that hey can handle multiple jobs simultaneously and excel at each job.

 


By Suryanarayan Murthy, Asst Vice President (Corporate Finance), A Hydro Power Project  10 15 2010 08:18:07 +0000
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no second opinion on this
By Mallikarjuna Gupta Bhogavalli, Sr. Product Manager, Oracle India Pvt Ltd  | 03 15 2011 10:07:12 +0000
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"Why always womens have to think between their professional life and personal life. Why not mens think like this? When we said we don't have to create differences between men and women"
By Madhugandha , MBA/PGDM student, ICFAI National College  | 10 20 2010 07:57:59 +0000
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"Why always womens have to think between their professional life and personal life. Why not mens think like this? When we said we don't have to create differences men and women"
By Madhugandha , MBA/PGDM student, ICFAI National College  | 10 20 2010 07:55:01 +0000
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I agree but not all womens, it is depend upon womens mental and health. we have heard about many successful womens like kiran bedi, Indira nooyi, take example our president.
By Prabakaran , MBA/PGDM student, Adhiyamaan Engineering College.  | 10 19 2010 10:47:50 +0000
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Yes, rightly said,

I would recommend women to take up any assignment which does not keep her away from her child.

If I had suitable powers, i would recommend all companies to allow married women to work only for 1/2 day Max.

 


By Prakash , Corpoate Relations & Placement Manager, Bangalore School of Business  | 10 18 2010 10:40:44 +0000
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It right women are better at raising their kids but its totally wrong to say that they should not go for start up. According to me it depends upon the individual's family conditions whether they are favorable or not.
By Abhishek Sharma, Marketing & Business Development, Technicon Holdings Pvt. Ltd.  | 10 18 2010 06:53:37 +0000
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It is the women who give birth so there is bound to be a strong bond between the mother and the child this bond makes the mother to understand the child better and the child the mother. Hence the women can bring up the child well.This is true to all living spices.
By Shashi Kumar U, Manager accounts & commercial, Mazda Concrete Products Pvt Ltd  | 10 18 2010 04:06:08 +0000
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I support. Women have the necessary skills to raise the kids
By Venkatraman Viswanathan, Head/VP/GM-General Insurance, Export Credit Guarantee Corporation ECGC  | 10 17 2010 14:02:08 +0000
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Dear Adrija,

 

Thanks for referring this debate to me. Well I would second you in what ever you have expressed but at the same time I would like to draw attention to one thing that it is about matter of choice whether a woman wants to raise kids or go for a start up but since both of the jobs are so tedious and needs 100% so can not be done together, either of the two needs to be chosen to do the justice. We have some great examples like MS. Sudha  Narayan Moorthy. Who being capable did not remain a active participant in formation of Infosys though she was capable.


By Prassan Kumar Sharma, AVP, Nirmal Bang Securities  | 10 17 2010 06:48:23 +0000
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Hi Friends, I Would like to invite first time to this .
By SENTHIL KUMAR, Cust. Service Executive, ING Vysya Life Insurance  | 10 16 2010 17:03:38 +0000
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YES,I believe in dominant spouses or women
By Nagaraj , student, sdm  | 10 16 2010 05:52:33 +0000
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the perfect idea is who can smooth and arranger her life, she could win (must by Priority Scale).
By Alin Sanjaya, SH., Investment/Treasury Manager, BIOMAX JAVA CORPORATION Ltd  | 10 15 2010 07:51:31 +0000
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A Sratup is very simmilar to raising a kid, and, I'm sure a woman has a inborn capability to take care of the common factors in both: 1. Confidence in uncertainities (not giving up) - not to think 'what if' the new born dies. 2. Catching the early symptoms of something going wrong 3. Dedication (investing herself fully) - extending herself beyond the call Rest is a personal choice, either can wait for other to happen first, not, giving up one for the other.
By Basab Nandi PMP®, Sr. Project Manager | IMS & ITSM/ITIL (seeking change)  | 03 15 2011 07:24:11 +0000
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This can be change by changing our HR policies. Why we don’t provide paternity leaves like the maternity leaves.
By Amol Malani, MBA/PGDM student, Great Lakes Institute of Management  | 10 24 2010 06:19:03 +0000
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i disagree. Women today are more professional, have their priorities cut out and are much more serious than they were few years back. And more over, a start up is more like raising a kid.
By Kiran Sethumadhavan, Partner, Sunrise Associates  | 10 19 2010 05:52:58 +0000
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DEPENDS UPON MENTAL SET UP AND BACKGROUND IN WHICH A WOMAN IS BROUGHT UP!!

Adrija,

You will be wondering, why I opposed your idea. It is because, the contention of "women are better at raising their kids than going for a startup", which you saw and supported is based only on narrow thinking.

WOMEN ARE EQUALLY CAPABLE AT RAISING THE KIDS AS WELL AS GOING FOR A START UP.

In fact, it is all conventional, not by application or utilization of talent of women. Nobody can claim to be superior than the other sex. Women can or cannot also be better at raising their kids than going for a startup. Similarly, women can also be better by going for a start up rather than raising their kids. Likewise, men can also be better at raiing their kids than going for a start up. That is another thing that women prefer to raise their kids.

In fact, it all depends upon their mental set up as have been developed right from their childhood as infused by their parents, particularly by their mothers, grand mothers, and other ladies folks, depending upon the environments and circumstances in which they were used to live and face the life right from their birth till their mariage.

Mental set up once formed by the rigors of attitudes for generations together is hard to change in any person. This attitude of the women being considered that they can better bring up children rather than going for a start up is only due to the contribution made by the attitude of their parents, grand parents and other neighborhood women folks, in bringing them up, particulars by mothers and grand mothers in most of the cases. The same thing can apply to men also, if they start living in similar environments and their parents just infuse the thinking in their minds that they can better be in raising up their kids rather than going for start ups.

So, evolution of life is such that women are accustomed to or are forced to think that they are better in bringing up their kids than going for a start up. And all of us are used to believe that thought.


By PS Dhingra, CEO & Vigilance & Transformation Management Consultant, Dhingra Group of Management & Educational Consultants  | 10 18 2010 09:15:42 +0000
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No, women in 21st century capable enough to handle both professional and personal life successfully. I personally feel, as a human being one should have some purpose of this life. talents should not go waste weather it is in women or men just for the sake of personal life. Every prob has solutions, therefore personal prob also have solutions.


By Chandra shekhar, Technical Writer/Quality Assurance, CMMI 3 Software Company, Hyderabad  | 10 18 2010 06:32:48 +0000
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bit suprising why v need to decide on wht women can do and not !! a women can raise a man who can be tata, birlas, reliance, microsoft so I dont think its a big deal to do it on her own !!
By Prasanna Rao, Consultant-BD, Zinnov Management Consultancy pvt ltd  | 10 18 2010 04:49:33 +0000
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i ll not support ths because, it really depends upon the person who is going for a start up. there are many venture which are raised by women entrepreneurs. so, i am against it
By sandeep mohapatra, MBA/PGDM student, Amrita School of Business, Kerala, India  | 10 17 2010 07:49:33 +0000
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I support your views, Murthy Sir. Very well said.

Good to know the meaning of Telgu poem.

It is true that woman have every capability to do whatever she wants.


By SHRIKANT MANOHAR DANKE, Project Manager, Phadnis Infrastructur Ltd  | 10 16 2010 10:17:03 +0000
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It's a matter of choice, but typically a woman can do anything she wishes and that she sets her mind to...and in many cases, better than a man. 

As it has been said about the famous American dance team from the 1940's & 1950's, Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, that Ginger not only matched each and every dance step and maneuver taken by Fred, BUT she did it in high-heels and dancing backwards!

The real question becomes...as we are now seeing women in the US ask themselves nearly 40 years after the start of so-called "women's liberation"...that after they clearly demonstrate just how capable they are in business, industry, science, law, academia, goverment and the military, are they any happier or more satisfied with their lives than they were when they were predominantly housewives and mothers?

And the answer, of course, depends on the individual woman, which is really where it all begins in the first place.  The important thing is that men and society should neither stand in the way nor condescendingly applaud the decisions and actions of our "better halves". 


By James Hindman, Principal, The Hindquarters Group, Inc.  | 10 15 2010 22:58:12 +0000
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