Challenges and opportunity for women entrepreneurship in India

1. Challenges and opportunity for women entrepreneurship in India NITHYAPANDIYAN

2. INTRODUCTION • According to Dr.APJ Abdul Kalam "Empowering women is a prerequisite for creating a good nation, when women are empowered, society with stability is assured. Empowerment of women is essential as their thoughts and their value systems lead to the development of a good family, good society and ultimately a good nation.“ • The purpose of the paper to examine the constraints and opportunities facing female entrepreneurship in developing countries at micro- and macro-level perspectives and seeks to provide a detailed account of opportunities and Challenges bought by entrepreneurship.

4. Challenges of women entrepreneurship • Access to financial resources. • Inadequate training and access to information. • Work-family interface. • Women’s safety and gender based violence. • Lack of societal support. • Problems of raising equity capital. • Difficulty in borrowing fund. • Throat-cut competitions endangered existence of small companies. • Increased pollutions Ecological imbalanced. • Exploitation of small and poor countries, etc.

5. CHALLENGES FACED BY WOMEN ENTREPRENURS

6. OPPORTUNITIES Today the role of Women entrepreneur In economic development is inevitable because women are entering not only in selected professions but also in professions like trade, industry and engineering. • free entry into world trade. • Improved risk taking ability. • Governments of nations withdrawn some restrictions • Technology and inventions spread into the world. • Encouragement to innovations and inventions. • Promotion of healthy completions among nations • Consideration increase in government assistance for international trade. • Establishment of other national and international institutes to support business among nations of the world. • Benefits of specialization. • Social and cultural development.

7. QULALITY OF WOMEN ENTREPRENUR’S

8. SUCSSFUL WOMEN ENTRPRENUER • Mahalakshmi Saravanan has a passion to create better opportunities for women and she has been encouraging budding entrepreneurs. With her indomitable optimism and can-do spirit, she has become a role model for thousands of aspiring women entrepreneurs today. MAHALAKSHMI SARAVANAN

9. BEST ACHIVEMENT AND MOTIVATIONAL SPEKER • Applauding her enterprising feat, Mahalakshmi Saravanan, has been conferred with the “BEST WOMAN ENTREPRENEUR AWARD' by SSM Educational Institutions, Komarapalayam. Tamil Cineworld stalwart ‘Illaya Thilagam’ Dr.G.Prabhu gave away the award crowning her on the eve of the International Conference on Women Entrepreneurship.

10. Recognitions • She has been invited as a motivational speakerat major National and International conferences • Industry events • corporate(Reserve Bank of India,Coromandel-Murugappa, etc) institutions(NIT, Trichy, MIT Chennai, Anna University,MOP vaishnav, Stella Maris,Ethiraj college, Madras University etc.,) • schools and forums. Her interviews have been featured in the leading south indian television channels

11. COUNCLUSION Women entrepreneurship in India faces many challenges and requires a radical change in attitudes and mindsets of society. Therefore, programs should be designed to address changes in attitude and mindset of the people. It is important to promote entrepreneurship among women to improve the economic situation of the women. This can be made possible with the help of education as education is a powerful tool in bringing out the entrepreneurship qualities in a human being. “Expect the unexpected and Whenever possible, be the unexpected.” -Lynda Berry

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