One of my meetings recently was with a young lady, who had just graduated from the arts stream of one of Delhi's premier colleges. And amongst the many things we discussed was of course the chances that graduates from her class would choose the path of entrepreneurship.

What are your classmates likely to do in life, I asked. The answer was something of a surprise -according to this young lady, her peers would end up in one of three choices - modeling, masters or marriage. 

Data shows that less than 20 % of entrepreneurs in this country are women. A number of reasons - cultural, historical and genetic have been touted for this small number.

If what I heard that day is true for most colleges around the country, then thsi ratio is not going to change significantly any time soon.

Further, many businesses started by women tend to be small and based out of home.

Gita Dang puts down the lack of business networking and peer support mechanisms as among the key reasons why many businesses started by women do not scale. And empirical evidence seems to validate the networking part of this, with most social networks like Twitter and facebook  having more female members than male!

Perhaps, there is a need for a social network exclusively for women to help build up woman entrepreneurship in this country