Ira, a girl from a small town, was heading to Mumbai to start college. Her dream was to work as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs. This dream wasn’t born out of deep knowledge or experience, but from a book she had read. The book described the life of an investment banker as sexy, full of money, and surrounded by hot and intelligent men..after all, it’s a male-dominated field. That was enough to fuel Ira's thoughts about her future. When Ira and her parents reached the airport, she sat outside the boarding area on one of those steel benches. Beside her sat two corporate-looking people who began discussing something. For a small-town girl like Ira, who had never stepped out of her house alone, it was new and fascinating to see two strangers initiating a conversation. The topic of their conversation? Finance roles. The girl, dressed confidently, mentioned working in a small firm, saying it was giving her opportunities to learn. Who knew if she...