When Grace Tahir’s daughter turned 14, they sat down to talk careers.
As a family linked to two Indonesian billionaire patriarchs, a life of leisure has always been an option for the women in the family — but the teenager said she wanted to work, like her mother. That sparked a renewed determination in Tahir to help advance women, pushing her to pour more funding into investments with a female focus.
"I would hate to see in 10 or 20 years time, when they get into the workforce, them facing the same situation I see myself in right now where a lot of things are very male-dominated,” 44-year-old Tahir, who has founded startups and is now a director at her family’s Mayapada Hospital group, said of her three daughters.