Authors : Ujwala Mavale
Page Nos : 91-95
Description :
Entrepreneurship refer to the act of setting up a new business so as to take advantages from new opportunities. Entrepreneurs are responsible for shaping the economy and they help in creation of new wealth and new jobs by inventing new products process and services. We all understand that economic development of today‟s women is crucial for economic development of any country. PanditJawaharNeharu has remarked “When women move forward, the family moves, the village moves and then ultimately the nation moves forward.†As our nation adopted the gender equality there are equal chances to every women where male can, but still the women enterprises are in the minority and hurdles faced by women are vast and very different than those experienced by their more counterparts. They usually has less access to elite position, credit, promotions opportunities training and development than men. In most cases women play non-economic or less economical roles in the society leading to a state of backwardness. Ironically women are vested with the responsibility of household issues, nutrition and child care. In this paper, an attempt has been made to study the opportunities and challenges related with the entrepreneurship that the women faces in the present time.
