Developing Sustainable Women Entrepreneurship: A Study of Mann Deshi Bank and Foundation

Abstract

Entrepreneurship has been defined in the 18th century as an attempt related to industrial activities and business. Entrepreneurship Development in a country and, its economic growth and prosperity are significantly correlated. The last few decades have witnessed the emergence of women as an entrepreneur not only in developed but developing countries too. Women entrepreneurship contributes immensely to higher GDP per capita and employment generation. It was only in 1976 when the first academic paper on women's entrepreneurship was published. There has a huge gap between the males and females involved in entrepreneurial activities in almost all countries. The mean rate of women’s objective to start an enterprise is 17.6 percent which is 4 percent lesser than the men.