However, in the last 30 years, a handful of businesswomen in India, including Lalita Gupte, Kalpana Morparia, Anu Aga, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw and Simone Tata, have quietly broken through the barriers of social conformity--both at home and in the workplace--to become successful entrepreneurs and professionals.

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Perhaps there is something to be said for conformity in social life when our working lives have so little room for rugged individualism.

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An authentic way of being contrasts with acting automatically, reactively, or from unquestioned conformity to expectations and social norms.

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Instead of getting stuck in the rut of conformity, they were able to translate their expansive social circle into profitable new concepts.

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