What Is Women Entrepreneurs?

Women Entrepreneurs may be defined as the women or a group of women who initiate, organize and operate a business enterprise. (Dr. AmanDeep Singh, 2013) (Adki, 2014)Government of India has defined women entrepreneurs as an enterprise owned and controlled by a women having a minimum financial interest of 51% of the capital and giving at least 51% of employment generated in the enterprise to women.A woman entrepreneur engages in all possible functions in establishing and running of her enterprise. She should explore the prospects of starting new enterprise; undertake risks, introduction of new innovations, coordination administration a, control of business and providing effective leadership in all aspects of business.

Kamal Singh who is a woman

By and large they had confide themselves to petty business and tiny cottage industries. Women entrepreneurs engaged in business due to push and pull factors. Which encourage women to have an independent occupation and stands on their own legs. A sense towards independent decision-making on their life and career is the motivational factor behind this urge. Saddled with household chores and domestic responsibilities women want to get independence under the influence of these factors the women entrepreneurs choose a profession as a challenge and as an urge to do something new. Such situation is described as pull factors. While in push factors women engaged in business activities due to family compulsion and the responsibility is thrust upon

Entrepreneurs usually require financial assistance to launch their ventures from formal bank loan or money from a savings account. The women entrepreneurs are suffering from inadequate financial resources and working capital. The women entrepreneurs are lack to access external funds due to their inability to provide tangible security. Very few women have the tangible property in hand.

4. Women's family members also bar them from becoming successful entrepreneurs. The financial institutions discourage women entrepreneurs on the belief that they can at any time leave their business and become housewives again because they are having primary responsibility like children, home and older dependent family members. The result is that they are forced to rely on their own savings, and loan from relatives and family friends.

5. Indian women give more emphasis to family and relationships. Married women have to make a fine balance between business and home. More over the business success is depends on the support the family members extended to women in the business process and management. The interest of the family members is a determinant factor in the realization of women business