Women enterpreneurship and its impact on digital india

Author: 
Dr. Suresha, K. P.

All business owners face certain challenges, but women, because of their gender, often have additional challenges and obstacles that their male peers are less likely to encounter working women who have children experience even more demand on time, energy and resources. But this does not mean women as well as success full than men, in fact, statistic show that women are starting business at more than twice the rate female majority owned business. The growing success rate of women entrepreneurship shows that they are resourceful and able to succeed, despite the odds. Women entrepreneurs may be defined as the women or a group of women who initiate organize and operate a business enterprise. The govt. of India has defined women entrepreneurs as “an enterprise owned and controlled by women having giving at least 51 percent of the employment generated in the enterprise to women.” Women entrepreneurs engaged in business due to push and pull factors which encourage women to have an independent occupation and stands on their legs. The women entrepreneurs are recognized as a power full instrument for the economic development of any country as well as in bringing the changes in the society as catalyst so the evaluation of the growth of the entrepreneurship becomes necessary in general.

Paper No: 
2528