Women Entrepreneurship and Social Transformation

Abstract

Women entrepreneurre present a group of women who have broken away from the beaten track and are exploring new vistas of economic participation. Women endowed with high drive, creativity, innovation and those who are keen on achieving on their own are taking on the challenges of entrepreneurship. Women Entrepreneurs are known to bring creativity and innovative ideas, when it comes about starting and managing an enterprise. But along with the imitativeness and enthusiasm, women entrepreneurs do have to battle constraints before they actually start their own venture. Entrepreneurship is a rapidly rising concern of a modern competitive economy and its contribution in economy is viably recognized worldwide. The women who start up their businesses have to face some teething problems. This research paper attempts to an alyse and highlight their problems and prospects. This research is about a Women Entrepreneur in the city of Lalitpur. It was expected that there would be around50 women entrepreneursal together while taking a census in the selected area but only forty twoof them were available for the firsthand on-the-spot study. So the investigation had to be limited to just forty-two respondents by administering open ended and closed questions. The results of the investigations by using descriptive statistics identified various problems and issues confronted by women entrepreneurs. Furthermore, based on the opinions of respondents, the research revealed a rank order of factors affecting them. Family, self and societal factors are ranked highest while factors like financial and economic, political and environmental and marketing and mobility are ranked as second, third and fourth respectively.