Women entrepreneurship [Book] : challenges and opportunities / Edited by Dr. Narendra Shukla, Dr. Mukesh Chansoria.

Entrepreneur is one who innovates, organizes, manages and assumes the risk of an enterprise and acts as a catalytic agent in growth process. When an enterprise is established and controlled by a woman, it not only boosts economic growth but also has many desirable economic growth but also has many desirable socio-economic outcomes. Women have innate flair for entrepreneurship. They are natural organizers and relationship builders. They can perform all the functions of an able entrepreneur in an efficient manner as their male counterpart, still they constitute less than 12% of self employed workforce in India, which is very less as compared to developed nations. This calls for concerted efforts to promote their role in entrepreneurial activities so that they can contribute to the growth process of the nation. Growth of women entrepreneur can go a long way in bridging the gap in gender inequalities in our country. The present book contains 35 different articles in which it is our endeavor to cover the major aspect of women entrepreneurship. It is hoped that the book will be highly useful to students, scholars, professors, planners and policy makers.

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