http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/194 2026-05-15T14:20:40Z 2026-05-15T14:20:40Z Patel, Palak Merja, Jay http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/131 2016-07-27T11:50:25Z 2015-02-18T00:00:00Z

Women Entrepreneurship: Engage-Inspire-Transform Patel, Palak; Merja, Jay Entrepreneurial activity creates growth and prosperity and even solutions to the social problems. In Future, women will be driving force for entrepreneurial growth. Many Factors like globalization, women education, urbanization, and increase in technical know-how have changed the concept for entrepreneurship as male-dominated. Women entrepreneurs are proving themselves to be most inspiring in developed as well as developing countries. Willingness of women to enter into trade and commerce and engineering business instead of just selected profession is increasing. If proper entrepreneurial education, skills and guidance given to women entrepreneurs they can contribute at large to the Nation’s Growth and Development. Women Entrepreneur can make strong contribution in educating, economic well-being and development of families and their by society. Women Entrepreneur has potential to change the small and medium scale industries of the world. Women Entrepreneurs are the one who have chosen to follow less-travelled roads and make all the difference.The present paper endeavors to study women entrepreneurship in Developing Countries, Traits of Entrepreneurship in women, Opportunities and Challenges of Women Entrepreneurship, Schemes for Encouraging Women Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries like India.The paper also highlights the equality gap that women entrepreneurs are still facing at the start-up phase and the other hurdles in the entrepreneurial journey that demotivates the women entrepreneurs derived from a survey done on female students of Entrepreneurship and Developmental Studies. Women’s Entrepreneurship

2015-02-18T00:00:00Z Sudan, Falendra Kumar Singh, Ishita http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/130 2017-10-10T07:02:28Z 2015-02-18T00:00:00Z

Women Entrepreneurship through Self Help Credit Programme: Evidence From Jammu and Kashmir Sudan, Falendra Kumar; Singh, Ishita The paper intends to analyze the process of livelihood diversification and women entrepreneurship through self help credit programme (SHCP) under Integrated Watershed Development Project (IWDP), Hills-II, Jammu and Kashmir. The study has been confined to 275 women members of SHCGs comprising regular members (156), auxiliary members (76), and new members (43). Both quantitative and qualitative tools were used to analyze data. Empowerment was assessed by Weighted Mean Index (WMI) method. The study reveals that women’s role in enterprise and household decision making, their access to assets and control over self earnings have improved significantly among client than non-client group. SHCP has facilitated them to take decision for their personal needs, availing treatment, recreational facilities and participate independently in household decision making. However, SHCP should incorporate necessary steps to enhance empowerment of women irrespective of their duration in programme, types of economic activities, and marital status. In order to transform SHCP into a genuine livelihood diversification and gender strategy, women’s empowerment needs to be understood as more than a marginal increase in access to income, and/ or consultation in limited areas of enterprise and household decision-making and/or occasional meetings with a small group of other women. Women’s Entrepreneurship

2015-02-18T00:00:00Z Jha, Srabani http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/129 2017-10-10T07:01:07Z 2015-02-18T00:00:00Z

Women Entrepreneurship in West Bengal: Problems and Motivations Jha, Srabani The owners of tiny manufacturing units are required to look into every aspect of their business from sourcing raw materials, labours for production to marketing, collection of payments, keeping accounts etc. In addition to this, women entrepreneurs also do compulsory household duties. In a survey of 180 women owned manufacturing units done in four districts of West Bengal during 2010-12, owners identified some specific personal, social and business problems. Personal and social problems include Time Management, Decision Making Stress, Unawareness, Gender Bias, Lack of Confidence, Lack of Family support etc. Business problems include Shortage of Fixed and Working Capital, Non-availability of Raw Materials, Marketing, Labour and Legal problems etc. In fact finance and marketing are two major impediments. 42% of the sample respondents did not take any bank loan. They are averse to risk taking, operate at tiny level and face this problem throughout their business career. Marketing involves a large number of activities including research, product development, distribution, pricing, advertising and personal selling, sales promotion and packaging. Tiny units cannot afford to have separate and well organised marketing system. Most of the entrepreneur’s time is spent on production activities. She has little knowledge and market information relating to her product. Labour problems include irregularity, poor workmanship and tendency to quit jobs without giving prior information and in few cases disobedience as the employer is a woman. Women’s Entrepreneurship

2015-02-18T00:00:00Z Kundu, Sabita http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/128 2016-07-22T14:11:40Z 2015-02-18T00:00:00Z

Women Entrepreneurship in Rural India through Public Library Kundu, Sabita The Planning Commission of the Government of India realized that economic development of country can take place only when women are carried on the mainstream of economic growth. We know Women constitute around half of the total world population. The statistics shows, two in five working age youth in India are unemployed. Women only are not countable in job area. They should be engaged either in an organization or in small-scale industries or may be in NGOs for entrepreneurship development programmes. The First National Conference of Women Entrepreneurs was held at New Delhi in November 1981. The Second International Conference of Women Entrepreneurs was organized by the National Alliance of Young Entrepreneurs (NAYE) held in 1989 at New Delhi. The Government moved a step forward in the Seventh Five Year Plan by including a special chapter of Integration of Women in Development. Women entrepreneurs are those women who think of a business enterprise. A library especially public library plays a vital role in our society. Women may build up a public library in their own locality, may improve it day by day. Local women can earn money through public library. Information is no longer a free product it’s become a marketable commodity. Public library is all in one in the social order. The manifesto of public library is Freedom, Prosperity and the Development of society and individuals. These are fundamental human values. Information centre as well as public library and the financial marketing and training assistance provided by the State Government helped to motivate women to assume entrepreneurial career. Women’s Entrepreneurship

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