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Naina Lal Kidwai, chief of HSBC India, told the same panel that women had to shed "self-imposed" glass ceilings. "I may sound very irreverent here but the biggest glass ceiling we have is ourselves. Self-imposed glass ceilings — feelings which tell us we can't go beyond a certain level. Issues like the ones Indra referred to, which are personal: Can I juggle home and career? Can I be wife, mother and work? These are self-imposed glass ceilings," said Kidwai, the first Indian woman to graduate from Harvard Business School. "You worry that you may drown. Then when you get there and take that leap of faith, it isn't so bad after all."
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