India's Brown Girls are a Bankable Asset

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Chanda Kochhar, [pictured] above, is the chief executive of Icici Bank,

where women make up 40 percent of the senior management.

From the New York Times:  "In New York and London, women remain scarce among top bankers despite decades of struggle to climb the corporate ladder. But in India’s relatively young financial industry, women not only are some of the top deal makers, they are often running the show."  Read the article in its entirety here.