Conducive and Inhibiting Factors to the Development of Women Entrepreneurship

Abstract

In this dynamic world, women entrepreneurs are significant for the economic development of a country in general and development of women in particular. Now a days a number of women are seeking professional education to enter into an independent business/professional activities. They have entered in independent business/professional activities such as manufacturing, trading and a number of professional activities such as doctors, archictects, lawers, beauticians etc. The present empirical study has been carried out in Aurangabad city of Marathwada region in Maharashtra, India. In the sphere of entrepreneurial development, women are constrained by a variety of socio-economic factors. Therefore it is important to understand conducive and inhibiting factors to the development of women entrepreneurship. The present study was conducted to understand the factors, conducive as well as inhibiting, to the development of women entrepreneurship in Aurangabad , one of the cities of Maharashtra State in India.

Key Words: Economic Growth, Conducive Factor, Inhibiting factor, Entrepreneurship.