High-profile lawyer, champion of women’s causes, mom. Cherie Blair talks about creating equal opportunities
Name Cherie Blair
Profile Human rights lawyer, head of the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women
Guiding Principle: Men and women have complementary skills. They are designed to work together.
The year is 1962. You are just an eight-year-old girl. You live with your working class parents in a small English town. And your father one day walks out. Your mother and grandmother step up to hold your world together but neither have great financial means. From then on, it is a make-do life. The question is, where do you take yourself from there?
(This story appears in the 18 December, 2009 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)