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WOMEN ENTREPRENEURSAND RURAL

ENTREPRENEURSHIP



Objectives

Defining women Entrepreneurship

Analyzing the problems of womenEntrepreneurship (WE)

To find out Motivational factors of WE

To know Facilitating Factors of WE

To define Rural Entrepreneurship (RE)

To classify RE

Analyzing the challenges in growth of RE



We need to understand…

Whether women can contribute significantlytowards the national economy

Do they have equal potential?

•If so, why are there fewer womenentrepreneurs today?•What are their difficulties?

•How can we address them?



Problems of Women Entrepreneurs

1. Patriarchal Society:

Entrepreneurship has been traditionally seen as amale protected and idea of taking up

entrepreneurial activities is considered as adistant dream.

Women are equally achievement oriented,aggressive, independent, risk takers, selfconfident, hard working etc as their malecounterparts

Any deviation from the norm is looked fiercely and

if possible, immediately restricted.




3. Financial Problems: Obtaining the supports of bankers,

managing the working capital,

Women are yet to make significant mark inquantitative terms. Marketing and financialproblems are such obstacles where even trainingdoesn’t significantly help the women.



4. Family conflicts:

Women also face the conflict of performing of homerole as they are not available to spend enough time

with their families. They spend long hours in business and as a result,

they find it difficult to meet the demands of theirfamily members and society as well.

Their inability to attend to domestic work, time foreducation of children, personal hobbies,entertainment add to their conflicts.





5. Credit facilities: Though women constitute about large percentage of

population, the percentage of small scale enterprisewhere women own very small percentage of share

capital.

Women are often denied credit by bankers on theground of lack of collateral security. Therefore,women’s access to risk capital is limited.

Example: Grameen Banks, Brac, Proshika, Asa’s microcredit facilities has been a good deal of selfemployment program.




6. Heavy competition: Many of the women enterprises have imperfect organizational

set up. But they have to face severe competition from organizedindustries.

7. High cost of production: undermines the efficiency and stands in the way of development

and expansion of women’s enterprises. Government assistance in the form of grant and subsidies to

some extent enables them to tide over difficult situations.



Women set up an enterprise due to economic and non-economic reasons

“When women moves forward, the family moves,the village moves and the nation moves.” isrightly said by Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru.

Employment gives status and economicindependence to women leading to anempowered women.

Various reasons can be due to motivational factors and facilitating factors.



Motivational Factors

Economic necessity independence

education and qualification

employment generation success stories of friends & relatives

family occupation

Govt. policies and programs

role models to others self identity and social status



Facilitating Factors

Adequate financial facilities

Innovative thinking

Co-operation of family

Support of family members

Network of contacts



Rural Entrepreneurship

In simple words, rural entrepreneurship impliesentrepreneurship emerging in rural areas. Orrural entrepreneurship means ruralindustrialization.

Industrialization can’t originate or sustain withoutentrepreneurship whether rural or urban.

Thus, rural entrepreneurship is the only solutionto rural poverty and backwardness.



Some Village Industries

Mineral based industry i.e. cottage pottery industry,slate & slate pencil making, manufacture of bangles etc.

Forest based industry i.e. hand made paper,manufacture of katha, cottage match industry,agarbatties etc.

Agro based food industry. it includes, honey,manufacture of cane gur, nuts etc.

Engineering and non-conventional energy includescarpentry, household aluminium utensils, gobar gasfrom cow dung and other waste products.

Textile industry includes batik work, toys, and doll

making etc.



Features of Rural Industry

Agriculture and rural development are theultimate goal of our economy.

As far as meaning of rural industrialization isconcerned, there are conceptual difficulties indefining as such.

However, it is generally taken as a group of

traditional industries like handloom, khadi,handicraft, pottery, Bamboo made stuffs etc.



Features of Rural Industry

A Rural industry has following features:a) very low investment

b) use of traditional skills

c) products are either essential mass consumer goods orhandicrafts;

d) use of locally available raw-materials

e) cater to limited markets

f) products are becoming popular in foreign markets fortheir unique nature



Problems in Growth of Rural Entrepreneurship

a. Lack of infrastructural facilitiesb. Non-supportive attitude of financial institutions which

works more on papers that its delay often disappoints theentrepreneurs

c. lack of technical know-howd. lack of communication facilities and market informatione. lack of warehousing facilitiesf. banks do provide concessional loans but their rules are

very rigidg. lack of quality management

Conclusion: Village & small industries is under a threat ofextinction. Unless the rural industry is modernized, it hasto face its closure sooner or later due to increasingcompetition.



Problems in Growth of Rural Entrepreneurship

Village & small industries is under a threatof extinction. Unless the rural industry is

modernized, it has to face its closuresooner or later due to increasingcompetition.

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