The Boss: Preethi Herman Is Helping Women Gain Equality Around the World

In The Boss, women share how they became successful and the lessons they learned along the way.

I grew up with a terrorizing fear. From the time I was nine, the Indian movies I watched told me that if a girl was sexually assaulted, she would have to kill herself to save her family’s honor. A girl’s virginity and ‘purity’ were paramount.

This was a central theme of the pop culture movies in my home in south India.