Authors : Mina Kalele
Page Nos : 75-78
Description :
Entrepreneur plays an important role in the growth of any Nation. Development of any entrepreneurship culture and qualitative business development services are the major requirements for industrial growth. Entrepreneurship emerges from an individual’s creative spirit into long-term business ownership, employment creation, Capital formation and economic security. Entrepreneurship skills are necessary for industrialization.
As technology speeds up lives, women are emerging economic core of the country. The world’s modern democratic economics depends on the participation of both sexes . Irene Natividad has observed that, Global markets and women are not often used in the same sentence, but increasingly statistics show that women have economic clout-most visibly as entrepreneurs and most powerfully as consumers. In some regions of the world, transformation to market economy, women entrepreneurship is a growing trend. However in India, the actual participation of women in income generating activities is quite unsatisfactory. The Specific role of women in the economic effort has not yet been clearly defined but the need for integration of women into development is being particularly felt by women themselves.
With the increase in the number of women getting educated, there is considerable awareness among women to be self-employed, and gradually the role of women is changing in the society. Women make the second largest target group for identification of potential entrepreneurs being slightly less than 50% of the total population.
In India women have to face many constraints in carrying out economic activities or undertaking any enterprenual work. Women have to face various socioeconomic and other problems as entrepreneurs as they are not treated at same level with men due to social and cultural traditions.
