Female Entrepreneurs in the World of Globalization: Analyzing Challenges and Obstacles

Abstract

Entrepreneurship has been recently received greater attention from policy makers in Iran as an necessary solution to resolve the job unemployment issues for youth(Sarfaraz and Faghih 2011).Entrepreneurship means the route of generating value added products within time frame needed and utilizing necessary efforts and resources along with the physical, social and financial risk taking ability in order to achieve self-pleasure, independence and suitable earnings (Ali Shahhoseini, 2004).Females are crossing men’s bastion and are leading at forefront in global economic development and expansion of country worldwide but much of the existing research has focused on male entrepreneur’s giving very less attention to female entrepreneurs (Brush, C. G. (1992), Bardasi, E., et.al, 2011). In accordance with the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) in 2011, entrepreneurship is budding rapidly with the speedy rate and women entrepreneurship has become a matter of alarm for all countries (Syeda et.al 2017, Arasti,Z., Tarzamny ,E.,2013).Even though women entrepreneurs are establishing their enterprise but still they lack lesser entrepreneurial activities than men ,Langowitz, N., & Minniti, M. (2007). According to Statistics only 10% of women are entrepreneurs in Iran and this shows the declining ratio which prevents growth of women entrepreneurs in the 21stcentury. In this article with the challenges and health issues they undergoes; this paper will review the studies finding out the lacunae’s evaluating other articles effectively. The author systematically searched different journals of Web of Science, Scopus, SCI-e, SSCI to analyze the challenges and obstacles of women entrepreneurs in Iran. The study used is secondary data to analyze and evaluate the results and determine the conclusion. Also results were evaluated from websites which analyses the growth of women entrepreneur in Iran. With the globalization and technical era there is a vast difference seen in physical, mental and social health issues being women entrepreneurs. Thus in the country like Iran, stress, mental disorders and health issues must be balanced properly in order to cope up with daily routine.