Working for women

SheWorkz by Zilingo is a micro-entrepreneurship programme started by Ankiti Bose that enables women to monetise their free time and space in their homes

(Oct 28): It was over a simple chicken curry lunch with a colleague that Ankiti Bose, founder of fashion and retail technology platform Zilingo, realised that she could no longer stand aside and be a “frustrated armchair critic” on the problem of women dropping out of the workforce. Having watched her mom give up a highly respected job as a professor to raise her, she knew that across Asia, and particularly Southeast Asia, women were not reaching their full potential for growth and income.