There is an increased appreciation of women's talents in the corporate sphere today than ever before but when
it comes to listing the most
powerful women in
business, media perception seems based on their accessibility and public profile.Several powerful women are indeed absent from every such list At one level because power is associated with only money and not decision making and influence. Hence there is an usual list of women connected with business without any regard to whether their positions are through inheritance, family connections or personal enterprise. Take for instance, Usha Thorat and Shyamala Gopinath, the two deputy governors of RBI,who weild considerably more power and are also respected more for their abilities? similarly Chitra Ramakrishnan,the deputy managing director of NSE who never finds a mention . Another missing name is that of Central Bank chair person Hormai Daruwala . it must be however admitted that women who broke the glass ceiling-Tarjani Vakil (former chairman of Exim bank, Ranjana kumar,former (chairperson of indian bank and Nabard) and Kishore Udeshi (first women deputy governor of RBI) Amrita Patel, who has taken the National Dairy Development Board to newer heights with her commitment to the co-operative movement. Anu Agha is another one for courage. Her husband, founder of Thermax, died suddenly in 1996, and she tragically lost her son the following year. Taking her personal grief in her stride, she went on to restructure the board of directors at Thermax and has made a success of the company since did get their share of credit