Profit Influential Factors of Women Entrepreneurs’ Enterprises: A Case Study in Sylhet City, Bangladesh.

Abstract

In recent years, women-owned businesses have experienced rapid growth in certain industries of the world including Bangladesh. Entrepreneurship is an economic activity which is undertaken by an individual or group of individuals. Women are a part of the nation’s manpower. This manpower of Bangladesh has already shown its immense potential in different socio-economic sectors. The purpose of the study is to investigate the available support services & factors those affect the profit earned by female entrepreneurs. In this study, data were collected from different areas in Sylhet City of Bangladesh and used the Pearson’s correlation since the questionnaires were employed to collect primary data from the field. The major finding of the study is training, easy finance in start up, family support are the major influential factors those affect profit of women entrepreneur’s enterprises. The study also finds specific obstacles to women’s entrepreneurship in Sylhet city: type of education, lack of role models in entrepreneurship, gendering of entrepreneurship, weak social status, competing demands on time and access to finance. Based on these findings, policy makers can increase the ability of women to participate in the work place. More generally, improving the contribution of financial institutions will expand benefits in terms of women’s entrepreneurship in Sylhet city as well as in Bangladesh.