Archana Khosla Burman, Founder Partner, Vertices Partners

International Women's Day gives us an opportunity to celebrate the success of women achievers and ruminate on the road ahead to build an inclusive ecosystem for growth. Women entrepreneurs and professionals have been playing a significant role in driving the economy. Entrepreneurial ventures and start-ups founded by women are generating employment at a considerable scale. Their journeys are inspirations for other aspiring women entrepreneurs.

However, to make a deeper impact on the economy and the GDP, there is an urgent need to create a level playing field for women entrepreneurs. They have proven their mettle in the highly competitive start-up ecosystem by setting up successful businesses. The time has come to create an enabling ecosystem for them so that they shape economic growth and make it inclusive in the true sense of the term. Setting up gender equity is the need of the hour to ensure equitable outcomes for women professionals and founders and for the economy as a whole. Promising women-founded ventures should no longer remain as missed economic opportunities due to the absence of funding support. It's quite encouraging to see the government initiating measures and schemes to address funding requirements of women-led ventures to accelerate growth.