Welcome to the broad experience, the show about women, the workplace and success.

I'm Ashley Miltite.

This time, 1.2 billion people live in India.

And women work everywhere from big offices to call centres to other people's homes.

The people who work for me and my child actually have babysitters of their own because she

today can work in my house only because she has somebody who will go and get her child back

from school. So I think it works at different levels in India. My guest wants to empower more women

in India, but she wouldn't say she's one of the sisterhood.

An extreme sense of feminism is possibly hurting more women than helping them. I mean, I'm an

observer of that debate because I don't call myself a feminist. Coming up, we look at how

women are faring in the world's biggest democracy. India has the next largest population on earth after China, but in China, around

65% of women are in the workforce. In India, it's closer to 30%. And that number has dropped during the last decade.

There are lots of reasons for that. A woman's place is still considered to be firmly in the home,

and it's not just children who pull women out of the workforce. The center of a talent innovation did a survey of educated Indian women a few years ago.

80% of those who quit work said they did so to look after parents or in-laws.

There are safety issues for women just getting to and from work in India.

And companies aren't exactly radiating support for women either.

That said, I've read a couple of pieces of research this week, and they

both say young Indian women are more ambitious than their American counterparts. They just get

stymied faster on their way up the career ladder. Shaley Chopra wants to change the odds of women's

success. She's a journalist, author and media entrepreneur. She lives in Mumbai and she's

married with a baby son. Recently she did something a bit like me. She struck out on her own to

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