Volume : 5, Issue : 9, SEP 2019

OPPORTUNITIES AND DEVELOPMENT OF WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS IN INDIA

MEENA.M, KAMALAKEERTHIGA.P

Abstract

Entrepreneurship can be rewarding career route. But with rewards, come challenges. Women entrepreneurship is gaining momentum in today’s context of a globalized village. Many women feel confident about themselves to leave the formal job scenario and work from home, starting a business on a modest scale, making a profit and moving onwards from there. They have managed to break the proverbial glass ceiling. It is their success stories, which become an inspiration to be studied. This paper focuses on the p progress of women in the corporate sector and the challenges faced by them while pursuing their goals. We all understand that economic development of the today’s women is crucial for economic development of any country specially a country like India. The dependency on service sector has created many entrepreneurial opportunities for women that the can utilise to enhance their social standing and reputation. In this paper, an attempt has been made to study the opportunities and challenges related with entrepreneurship that the women of our country face in the present times. Much knowledge is not found about the economic relevance of women in entrepreneurship programmes and the effect of these programmes on society and economy.

Keywords

ENTREPRENEURSHIP, WOMEN, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.

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