Women entrepreneurship

• Women entrepreneurs refers to a women or a group of women who

are liable to establish a new business venture and operate it
effectively.
• Women entrepreneurs are those who are develop their innovative
business idea or choose the best opportunity, organise resources,
combine the factors of production ,take risks and ensure smooth
functioning of the enterprise in a most effective way so as to earn
high profit.
Type of women entrepreneur
• Affluent Entrepreneur
• Pull Entrepreneur
• Push entrepreneur
• Rural entrepreneur
• Self employed entrepreneur
To become economically independent To establish
their own enterprise
To establish their identity their society To achieve
excellency in their endeavor To build confidence to
themselves
To develop risk assuming ability To claim
equal status in society
To secure greater freedom & mobility Liking for
business
An urge to do something new
Association Promoting Women
Entrepreneurship
• Self Help Group: A Charitable association where each
member has to contribute some amount of money to
collect seed money. The amount od seed money is used to
grant a loan to the members in need is repaid.
• FIWE (Federation of Indian Women Entrepreneurs)
aims to foster the economic empowerment of women
,particularly those belonging to the small and medium
enterprises segment, by helping them become successful
entrepreneurs and integrating them into the mainstream
industry.
• FLO (FICCI Ladies Organisation)
it is the women’s wing of the federate of Indian chambers of
commerce and Industry (FICCI). FLO aims to promote the
socioeconomic advancement of women with the objective of
women’s empowerment.

• Women’s India Trust (WLO)

it’s mission is to help women from less privileged backgrounds help
themselves by providing unskilled and disadvantaged women a
platform for advancement and empowerment. It offers training and
employment opportunities to any needy women irrespective of
age, caste, or religion.
• AWAKE(Association of women entrepreneurs of karnataka
it’s vision is to reach out to as many women as possible and create
entrepreneurs who will be role models for emulation worldwide.
Member of this association guide women who want to start or
improve their business by counseling, training, sharing their
experiences and expertise and by providing them with peer group
support.
• SEWA (Self Employed Women’s Association)
It is a trade union based in Ahmedabad, India that promotes the
rights of low-income, independently employed female workers. It
facilitate women to do trade of their choice in and organised manner.
Special Bank schemes:

• SIDBI(Small Industries development Bank of India)

• SIDO (Small Industries Development Organisation)

• NABARD(National Bank of Agriculture and Rural Development)

 Mahila Vikas Nidhi
• Districtindustries center
• Rashtriya Mahila Kosh

• Training Programs
 Under mahila vikas nidhi, a cumulative help of Rs. 80.4
million was sanctioned, during the period 1990-2001 .
Various training- cum production centers set up by NGOs
mostly relate to activities like sericulture, spinning,
weaving, block printing, handloom products, h

andicrafts etc.
 DICs arrange various lectures and seminars etc. in girls colleges and
technical institutes to encourage them to set up their own enterprises.
 It was set up in 1993 to provide micro- credit to poor
women who had no access to financial institution at
reasonable rates of interest with very low transaction costs
and simple procedures. It proved quite useful for lower
income g
roup women.
The government of India has started various
training programs schemes exclusively for self-
employment of women. The training programs
include Support for Training and Employment
Programs of women (STEP) and Development of
Women and Children in Rural Areas (DWCRA).

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 SHAHNAZ HUSAIN
 In 1977 she setup her own salon
at her house in delhi
 Initial investment 35000

 By 2002 the company had over

650 salons around the world,
employing 4200 people. The
network of the company was $100
million
 Started her own
company in 1978
10000it is the first ISO 9001
 Initialinvestment
company in biotechnology &
the first Indian company to
produce human insulin

having pichia
pastories- anyeast
organism as raw
material

 Ekta kapoor born on 7
june 1975
 She is a television, film
producer and joint MD of
balaji telefilms.
 2012asia’s social
empowerment award.
 Born on 28 october 1955
in madras, tamil nadu
 Chairman and CEO of
pepsico
 Nooyi has been named
2009 CEO of the year by
global supply chain
leaders group
 Microsoft India managing director,
leads Microsoft's sales and
marketing operations in the
country. A Stephenian (graduated
in 1980), she passed out of
Delhi's Faculty of Management
Studies in 1982. Back then, while
she was keen to join FMCG
majors like Hindustan Lever and
Asian Paints, both companies
rejected Dhawan as they did not
want to appoint women
 Managing director of apollo
hospitals
 In sep 2012, she the was
elected to the board as
independent director
of medical
technology company
Medtronic.she master,s
degree in public
administration
from annamalia
university.
 Born on 1967
 she was nominated for the
economic times awards as
the businessperson of the
year (2002-2003)
 Paul has been conferred
with the padma shri
awardby govt of India on
eve of the republic day,
Jan 2012
Minority Entrepreneurship
• Refers to a business which is at least fifty-one percentage owned by
a minority or disadvantageous group.
• Challenges:

• Lack of funds

• Strict rules and Lack of Management skills

• Cultural Barriers
Ease of Doing Business
• It refers to a cumulative data which shows the parameters for
measuring the ease of doing business in a nation.
• It includes several indicators such as permit to carry out construction,
registration, getting the credit, paying tax, protecting Minority
Investors, Enforcing Contracts, labour Market Regulation etc.
• https://www.doingbusiness.org/en/data/doing-business-score
 India’s Rank in EoDB

https://www.doingbusiness.org/en/rankings