Promotion of Women Entrepreneurship in India: An Empirical Study of Punjab

Abstract

With the transformation of society and socio-economic changes taking place in modern India, the role of women has assumed increasingly greater importance over time. The direct participation of women in the developmental process has been growing with the result that the number of women entrepreneurs has been sustainably increased. The fourth decade of the twentieth century saw an evolutionary change in the status of men and women in the world. The world war-II forced the men dominated societies the world over, to induce and handover responsibilities to women out of necessity. Hence, the post World War-II decades have witnessed a major and continuing phenomenon in the social, economic, industrial and administrative spheres. The process of becoming entrepreneur involves learning, unlearning and relearning things relating to the roles, tasks, functions, responsibilities and problems of entrepreneurs. There has been a rapid increase in the efforts made in the past few years to encourage entrepreneurship in developing countries. They have witnessed the phenomenon of the rapid increase in occupational movement among as owners of their own business. Currently, available statistical data from the USA. Canada indicate that the percentage of women entrepreneurs n continuous increasing since 1945.