Challenges Faced by Women Entrepreneurs
Challenges faced by Women Entrepreneurs in Service Sector
Abstract
Women entrepreneurship development is an essential part of human resource development. In traditional societies, they were confined to the four walls of houses performing household activities. The global evidences prove that women have been performing exceedingly well in different spheres of activities like academics, politics, administration, social work and now into industry also and running their enterprises successfully. The Government of India has defined a women entrepreneur is “ an enterprise owned and controlled by a women having a minimum financial interest of 51% of the capital and giving at least 51% of the employment generated in the enterprise to women “.The major factors hindering the success of women units are availability of raw materials, finance, labor, power supply, marketing, entrepreneurial problems and social and cultural factors. Another important problem Identified nowadays is sexual harassment by colleagues and senior staff and competition in the field from other units. . A sense towards independent decision-making on their life and career is the motivational factor behind this urge. Saddled with household chores and domestic responsibilities women want to get independence Under the influence of these factors the women entrepreneurs choose a profession as a challenge and as an urge to do some thing new Any understanding of Indian women, of their identity, and especially of their role taking and breaking new paths, will be incomplete without a walk down the corridors of Indian history where women have lived and internalized various role models. The paper talks about the status of women entrepreneurs and the problems faced by them when they ventured out to carve their own niche in the competitive world of business environment.
Women constitute around half of the total world population. They are therefore regarded as the better half of the society. In traditional
Abstract
Women entrepreneurship development is an essential part of human resource development. In traditional societies, they were confined to the four walls of houses performing household activities. The global evidences prove that women have been performing exceedingly well in different spheres of activities like academics, politics, administration, social work and now into industry also and running their enterprises successfully. The Government of India has defined a women entrepreneur is “ an enterprise owned and controlled by a women having a minimum financial interest of 51% of the capital and giving at least 51% of the employment generated in the enterprise to women “.The major factors hindering the success of women units are availability of raw materials, finance, labor, power supply, marketing, entrepreneurial problems and social and cultural factors. Another important problem Identified nowadays is sexual harassment by colleagues and senior staff and competition in the field from other units. . A sense towards independent decision-making on their life and career is the motivational factor behind this urge. Saddled with household chores and domestic responsibilities women want to get independence Under the influence of these factors the women entrepreneurs choose a profession as a challenge and as an urge to do some thing new Any understanding of Indian women, of their identity, and especially of their role taking and breaking new paths, will be incomplete without a walk down the corridors of Indian history where women have lived and internalized various role models. The paper talks about the status of women entrepreneurs and the problems faced by them when they ventured out to carve their own niche in the competitive world of business environment.
Women constitute around half of the total world population. They are therefore regarded as the better half of the society. In traditional
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