Experiences of Female Entrepreneurs in the Pondicherry Regio Nirmala, V.
By: Nirmala, V
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ArticlePublisher: 2003Subject(s): Pondicherry | Female Entrepreneurship | Women Entrepreneurship | Entrepreneurship Research | Entrepreneurshipsearch | Fifth Biennial Conference On Current Tre | Biennial Conference Papers
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Fifth Biennial Conference on Current Trends in Entrepreneurs ResearchSummary: To integrate women into a country's development and growth process, literacy, employment and health are globally recognised as crucial for their empowerment. Inadequacy of female entrepreneurship is one of the constraining factors in their empowerment. Hence, the government of India is making planned efforts to inculcate a sense of entrepreneurship among women through various incentives and development programmes. This paper addresses the issue of female entrepreneurs, their motivation, problems and constraints in Pondicherry region. The study is based on a survey conducted on during 1999-2000, covering a random sample of 250 rural and urban female entrepreneurs. To pursue the objectives of the study simple average, percentage and scaling technique are employed. The study reveals rural female entrepreneurs to be less qualified than their urban counterparts. Majority of them in both areas started their business between 20-29 years of age. They are largely engaged in traditional and less remunerative activities in rural areas and in trade and services in the urban areas. They mainly used own investment funds rather than borrowed capital. Monetary returns for the two groups were...
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To integrate women into a country's development and growth process, literacy, employment and health are globally recognised as crucial for their empowerment. Inadequacy of female entrepreneurship is one of the constraining factors in their empowerment. Hence, the government of India is making planned efforts to inculcate a sense of entrepreneurship among women through various incentives and development programmes. This paper addresses the issue of female entrepreneurs, their motivation, problems and constraints in Pondicherry region. The study is based on a survey conducted on during 1999-2000, covering a random sample of 250 rural and urban female entrepreneurs. To pursue the objectives of the study simple average, percentage and scaling technique are employed. The study reveals rural female entrepreneurs to be less qualified than their urban counterparts. Majority of them in both areas started their business between 20-29 years of age. They are largely engaged in traditional and less remunerative activities in rural areas and in trade and services in the urban areas. They mainly used own investment funds rather than borrowed capital. Monetary returns for the two groups were...
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