Women Entrepreneurs in India Set to Spread their Wings in the Corporate World

By : Ruchi Gupta

Page No: 32-41

Abstract
Women constitute 48.5% of the country’s population. According to the Sixth Economic Census released by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation they constitute around 14% of the total entrepreneurship. Women entrepreneurship is largely skewed towards smaller sized firms, as almost 98% of women-owned businesses are micro enterprises. The paper deals with women entrepreneurs in the current global scenario and their status as per sixth economic census (2013-14). It further deals with various government initiatives towards promoting and encouraging women entrepreneurs, identifying the challenges and offering few suggestions which may help overcome the barriers to women entry in corporate world.

Author :
Ruchi Gupta : Assistant Professor, Department of Commerce, Iswar Saran P.G. College, University of Allahabad
 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/PROD.2019.60.01.4