Alagh: Was likely the first woman in her family to work
Ghazal Alagh · WTF Ep# 16 | What character "flaws" make the best entrepreneurs? Nikhil ft.Ritesh, Ghazal and Manish · Nikhil Kamath · Mar 6, 2024 · at 2:51
Ghazal Alagh, co-founder of Mamaearth, describes growing up in a conservative middle-class household in Chandigarh where women were discouraged from pursuing careers.
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“I was probably the first women in my family to go out and work.”
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