There are many female managers, both in middle management and higher, in India. Most of them are from wealthy families of a totally different socio economic status. They have education and a family behind them to back them up.
But, the flip side of the coin is that many of them leave employment when they have children. They work, not necessarily because they need money, but because they want, and can, use the brain they have got.
There is not the same social structure with commercial nurseries like we have here, children are very often looked after by family members, mothers, mother in laws, if the woman returns to work.
I suppose this will have to change when the next generation of working women have children. As their own mothers have careers they may not be as willing to start childminding their grandchildren as a woman who has been used to life at home.
Allgonebellyup, I find your comment slightly offensive. Who are we to sit in judgment of the culture of a whole continent, no, make that two continents. It takes a long time for a society to change.