Cherie Blair means 'business' in India

PTI

London, Dec 3: Cherie Blair, the lawyer wife of former British Premier Tony Blair, is coming to India next week to host a conference on 'Women Mean Business', a media report said on Thursday.

The 55-year-old will also launch an awards scheme for female Indian entrepreneurs in Mumbai, which, she says, "will be strikingly different from existing prizes", leading British newspaper 'The Daily Telegraph' reported.

Speaking at the launch of 'Coriander Makes The Difference', a recipe book, Cherie said: "We want to showcase and prove how much women in business in India are already achieving, and also explore what the barriers are and what we can do about it.”

She added: "We are launching the 'Women of the Future Awards' in Mumbai. The aim is to take them back next year and really have a serious competition."

But, Cherie is keen that her efforts should not be seen as any comment on men generally.

"It's not because we hate men. As a mother of three sons, and a husband who I like pretty well, I think good men are very important in this world. It’s when good men and good women come together as equal partners that things really get going," she was quoted as saying.