{"title":"Women Entrepreneurs in India: Approaches to Education and Empowerment","authors":"S. Shetty, V. Hans","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3346540","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3346540","url":null,"abstract":"We can achieve economic development and shared prosperity only with the full economic participation of men and women in the globalised and liberalised India. In recent years, support programmes for women entrepreneurs have gained traction and prominence as a mean to empower them, create jobs and boost productivity at the national and regional levels. In developing economies, the role of women is most significant as workers and job creators. In India, female entrepreneur’s activity is concentrated in the informal sector with limited potential for growth in income and employment. In the Indian situation, female entrepreneurs are unable to grow their business from micro or small to medium or large productive enterprises with transformed economic impact. The World Bank estimation on the working-age population (15 to 59) is set to increase by more than 200 million in India in the next two decades, while it is expected to decline in most developing economies of the world including China. The era of globalisation has enhanced the role of women entrepreneurs. However, India may fail to obtain benefits without the participation of women, who form a significant mass of society. Active participation of women in economic activity and decision making is very much needed to increase GDP growth. Skill, knowledge-based education enables to change the role of women from homemaker to job maker. When a woman gets an education, a whole generation is educated. Education enhances knowledge which enables access to resources and opportunities. This paper focuses on the role of education in patterning and promoting women entrepreneurship and to examine problems, issues, challenges faced by women entrepreneurs.","PeriodicalId":281931,"journal":{"name":"ERPN: Work Integration (Of Disadvantaged Persons) (Sub-Topic)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129525455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Concepción de la Fuente Cabrero, Mónica Segovia-Pérez, Cristina Figueroa-Domecq
{"title":"Implications of Financial Institution Support for Women's Business Projects","authors":"Concepción de la Fuente Cabrero, Mónica Segovia-Pérez, Cristina Figueroa-Domecq","doi":"10.7200/ESICM.149.0453.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7200/ESICM.149.0453.3","url":null,"abstract":"Business women and their companies, powerful drivers of international economic development, are characterised by certain idiosyncrasies. The present study aimed to analyse the effect of financial support for female entrepreneurship on the number and characteristics of such endeavours. Data for 2005-2012 drawn the database of new company projects financed by AVALMADRID SGR were analysed with univariate and bivariate methods. The findings revealed differences between female and male entrepreneurship and showed that women’s business activities are more intense when specific support is available financial institutions.","PeriodicalId":281931,"journal":{"name":"ERPN: Work Integration (Of Disadvantaged Persons) (Sub-Topic)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129156802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}