Economic Dependency of Women Entrepreneurs in Micro Enterpri Abdullah, A Mohamed.
By: Abdullah, A Mohamed
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ArticlePublisher: 2007Subject(s): Economic Dependency | Microenterprises | Women Entrepreneurs | Women | Women Entrepreneurship | Women And Entrepreneurship | Entrepreneurshipip | Seventh Biennial Conference On The New F | Biennial Conference Papers
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Seventh Biennial Conference on the New Frontiers of EntrepreSummary: In the beginning of industrialization process, entrepreneurship has been the domain of men, but in later stage women could also assume entrepreneurship. Henry Higgins [2005] says that the future of industrial world is in women's hand as they girls score more marks than boys, more women are taking up jobs than men, more women assume entrepreneurial occupations than men, women make most of the decision of consumer products, women are proving as successful as men in various fields, more women related, service oriented industrial units emerging in, etc. This paper analyses the status of women micro entrepreneurs and try to examine their contribution to the household thereby label whether the family is a dependent unit on women's income or women depend on family's income. It has used the Dependency model of Annemettee Sorensen and Ara Mclanahan [1987] to identify whether the entrepreneurs of this study are dependent unit on family or not. The Dependency model says that if the income of the family [INCF] is greater than the income of the women entrepreneurs [INCW] women entrepreneurs are dependent on family's income and on the other hand if the INCW is greater than INCF, family is the...
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In the beginning of industrialization process, entrepreneurship has been the domain of men, but in later stage women could also assume entrepreneurship. Henry Higgins [2005] says that the future of industrial world is in women's hand as they girls score more marks than boys, more women are taking up jobs than men, more women assume entrepreneurial occupations than men, women make most of the decision of consumer products, women are proving as successful as men in various fields, more women related, service oriented industrial units emerging in, etc. This paper analyses the status of women micro entrepreneurs and try to examine their contribution to the household thereby label whether the family is a dependent unit on women's income or women depend on family's income. It has used the Dependency model of Annemettee Sorensen and Ara Mclanahan [1987] to identify whether the entrepreneurs of this study are dependent unit on family or not. The Dependency model says that if the income of the family [INCF] is greater than the income of the women entrepreneurs [INCW] women entrepreneurs are dependent on family's income and on the other hand if the INCW is greater than INCF, family is the...
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