Draft:Wednesday Wisdom by Women

Wednesday Wisdom by Women is an initiative by RisingIndia ThinkTank's Next Startup AgriVaidic Integration initiated and designed to feature women entrepreneurs and encourage entrepreneurship market place by women in the startup eco system.

In 2022, to empower women entrepreneurship in India and bring them into the main stream of workforce which currently affected lower by 68%. The initiative is known as Wednesday Wisdom by Women in which women entrepreneurs are featured every Wednesday in spirit to encourage fellow women and girls to participate in entrepreneurial ventures. "Wednesday Wisdom by Women"

This year 2022 as part of inviting Women Entrepreneurs who not only believed but also lived the sustainable entrepreneurship

Good Health and wellbeing is an endeavor for the entire human race Nutritionist plays an important role in developing Healthy food habits. Wednesday Wisdom by Women is an initiative to encourage Women entrepreneurship and build and involve Tier II/III cities in the startup ecosystem, Featuring young woman as NutriPreneur, about their journey and inspiration with an intended Agenda:

1. Brief about Agri Vaidic Integration and purpose

2. Discussion with a woman entrepreneur on their entrepreneurial journey

This is an encouraging move by the venture studio "RisingIndia ThinkTank" and the founder believes that in order to improve the economy of any country it is of vital importance to involve women in utmost flexible way to contribute in businesses. He also mentioned in an interview that women entrepreneurs into Nutrition Management is sacred and Wednesday Wisdom by Women will eventually encourage many budding nutrition management professional to focus on the sector and unleash the potential.

This was started as the first series and gradually RisingIndia started including all sectors to feature women entrepreneurs and drive the movement for United Nation's Sustainable Development Goal 5 Gender Equality

History

Wednesday Wisdom by Women was first initiated by featuring women entrepreneurs on AgriVaidic Integration platform as part of RisingIndia

Background

68% of women graduates in India are not in the work-force today India’s women are leaving the work-force at an astonishing rate with less than 20% labor force participation. The startup ecosystem doesn’t fare much better Women represent only 14% of entrepreneurs in India, mostly unfunded Only 5 out of the 136 unicorns in India are founded by women Female founders raise just 2% of VC money in 2021 Out of the 10,000 angel investors in India, only 1% are women Closing the gender gap can add $50b-$100b to India’s GDP every year and accelerate our journey towards becoming a leading economy.

Events

Wednesday Wisdom by Women started featuring woman entrepreneurs

First event on February 2, 2022 at 16:00 Indian Standard Time with Dr Zubeda Tumbi, a personal nutritionist from Mumbai

2: February 9, 2022 at 16:00 IST with Ms Neha Ranglani

3: February 16, 2022 at 16:00 IST with Ekta Sood

4: March 2, 2022 at 16:00 IST with Nisha Malhotra, a celebrity nutritionist from New Delhi

5: March 16, 2022 at 21:00 with Dr Abha Rishi Executive Head, Madhya Pradesh Startup Centre, Government of Madhya Pradesh

6: April 30, 2022 at 16:00 IST with Darshini Bali

7: August, 2022 with Nidhi K CEO of AIC JKLU from Ajmer

8: Sept 2022 with Dr Rohini Sharma, Mentor at iStart - Startup cell of Rajasthan, Kota

9: Oct 5, 2022 with Dr Jasmin Gupta cofounder of LXME

10: December 14, 2022 with CA Namita Shah cofounder of Presolv360, Ahmedabad

11: December 21, 2022 with Ms Bhavini Parikh founder of BunkoJunko, Mumbai

12: December 28, 2022 with Dr Megha Bhatt founder of SciKnowTech, Ahmedabad

13: March 8, 2023 with Ms Therese Baptiste Former UN Ambassador and WTO Permanent Representative for Trinidad and Tobago, Belgium

14: March 29, 2023 with Dr Rabiaah Bhatia an Edu-Model and Mompreneur, New Delhi

15: May 31, 2023 with Ms Smriti Bhatia, Founder of Smriti's ChocoHouse and SIABAZ

Organizations

TreeAndHumanKnot adopts simple solution by encouraging men and women to plant fruit trees together which is as per Vedas generates healthy relationships and helps valuing each other. It is also believed that fruits of such trees which are planted by men and women together are sweeter once they are grown

How in solidarity for Sustainable Development Goal 5 Gender Equality a man and woman in village area planted a tree for accepting each other on equal footing.

Sustainable Development Goal 5 Gender Equality a man and woman in village area planted a tree for accepting each other on equal footing. TreeAndHumanKnot is an India based volunteering organization supporting sustainable development goals. Sustainability is fundamental requirement of human life and therefore Tree And Human Knot believes that every human should come together and accordingly equal opportunity should be given to the women in society. The first volunteers of TreeAndHumanKnot planted a fruit tree in August 2020 to pass the message to fellow human beings that men and women are having similar responsibility and each one should work together in harmony to live upto their responsibility. It further states that for nature all category of human beings, caste, race and color are same. It does not differ one from another. A tree gives same oxygen to men and to women then why differ or undermine by ourselves. The message is to plant a tree together if you believe in sustainable development goal 5. TAHK is working for SDG 5.

UN Women works for the empowerment of women.

Equality Now advocates for the protection and promotion of the human rights of women and girls.

Vital Voices works with women leaders in the areas of economic empowerment, women's political participation, and human rights.

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