Women Entrepreneurship

Introduction, features of women entrepreneurship, why women become entrepreneurs, qualities, tips for women entrepreneurs, facilitating factors, opportunities, challenges, problems, remedial measures, steps taken by government, training programs, supporting agencies and about some famous women entrepreneurs

1. WOMEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP Priyanka Pareek BGSIT

2. “Somebody once said, educate a woman & u will educate a family. I am saying empower a woman to become an entrepreneur, & you will create an entire family of entrepreneurs. Women entrepreneurship is the need of the nation right now, it is the surest quickest way to make INDIA a super power. Great lines

3. Women entrepreneurs may be defined as ”A women or group of women who initiate, organize and run a business enterprise”. GI has defined “ An enterprise owned and controlled by a women having a minimum financial interest of 51% of the capital & giving at least 51% of the employment generated in the enterprise to women”. INTRODUCTION

4. Imaginative Attribute to work hard Ability and desire to take risk Profit earning capacity Most women with small income are likely to become entrepreneurs. FEATURES OF WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS

5. To become economically independent T o establish their own enterprise To establish their identity their society To achieve excellency in their endeavor To build confidence to themselves To develop risk assuming ability To claim equal status in society To secure greater freedom & mobility Liking for business An urge to do something new Why women become entrepreneurs?

6. QUALITIES OF WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS Accept challenges Ambitious Hard work Patience Motivator Adventurous Conscious Educated Intelligent

7. Adequate financial facilities Self satisfaction Innovative thinking Co-operation from family Morale support from friends & relatives FACILITATING FACTORS

8. Free entry into world trade Improved risk taking ability Govt of nations withdrawn some restrictions Technology & inventions spread into the world Benefits of specialization Social & cultural development Encouragement to innovations & inventions OPPORTUNIIES

9. Problems of raising equity capital Difficulty in borrowing fund Problems of availing RM Problems of TRIPS & TRIMS CHALLENGES

10. Problem of raw material Marketing problem Infrastructure problem Lack of awareness Lack of education Lack of family support Low of business information Low of risk bearing ability Limited mobility Competition Male dominance PROBLEMS OF WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS

11. Financial assistance Simple legal formalities Creating awareness & education Co-operation from agencies Training and development Offering concessions Women’s cell Women entrepreneurs’ association Remedial measures

12. Mahila Vikas Nidhi District industries center Rashtriya Mahila Kosh Training Programs Steps taken by government

13. Under mahila vikas nidhi , a cumulative help of Rs . 80.4 million was sanctioned, during the period 1990-2001 . Various training-cum production centers set up by NGOs mostly relate to activities like sericulture, spinning, weaving, block printing, handloom products, handicrafts etc. Mahila Vikas Nidhi

14. DICs arrange various lectures and seminars etc. in girls colleges and technical institutes to encourage them to set up their own enterprises. District industries center

15. It was set up in 1993 to provide micro-credit to poor women who had no access to financial institution at reasonable rates of interest with very low transaction costs and simple procedures. It proved quite useful for lower income group women. Rashtriya mahila kosh

16. The government of India has started various training programs schemes exclusively for self-employment of women. The training programs include Support for Training and Employment P rograms of women (STEP) and Development of Women and Children in Rural A reas (DWCRA). 20 TRAINING PROGRAMS

17. Country Percentage India (1970-1971) 14.2 India (1980-1981) 19.7 India (1990-1991) 22.3 India (2000-2011) 31.6 USA 45 UK 43 Indonesia 40 Sri Lanka 35 Brazil 35 22 STATISTICAL DATA OF WOMEN ENTREPRENEUR IN WORLD .

18. States No of Units Registered No. of Women Entrepreneurs Percentage Tamil Nadu 9618 2930 30.36 Uttar Pradesh 7980 3180 39.84 Kerala 5487 2135 38.91 Punjab 4791 1618 33.77 Maharashtra 4339 1394 32.12 Gujarat 3872 1538 39.72 Karnataka 3822 1026 26.84 Madhya Pradesh 2967 842 28.38 Other States & UTS 14576 4185 28.71 Total 57,452 18,848 32.82 23 STATISTICAL DATA OF WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS IN INDIA .

19. OVERALL PRODUCT SELECTION BY WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS IN INDIA

20. 26 GROWTH OF WOMEN ENTREPRENEUR

21. Domestic Agencies : Small Industries Development Bank of India, SIDBI Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI) Ministry of Small Scale Industries (SSI), Government of India. National Bank for Agriculture Rural Development (NABARD) Department of Women and Child Development (WCD), Ministry of HRD, GOI Self Help Groups (SHG) Mahila Mandali SUPPORTING AGENCIES

22. International Agencies: United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) Asian Development Bank (ADB) International Labour Organization (ILO) United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Center for International Private Enterprises (CIPE), USA Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), Sweden World Trade Organization (WTO)

23. Association of Women Entrepreneurs of Karnataka(AWAKE) Federation of Indian Women Entrepreneurs (FIWE) Self-help Groups (SHGs) Mahila Udyog Nidhi (MUN) The Trade R elated E ntrepreneurship Association & Development (TREAD) BANK PF India’s Priyadarshini yojana Other Schemes Institutes assisting women entrepreneurs

24. SHAHNAZ HUSAIN In 1977 she setup her own salon at her house in delhi Initial investment 35000 By 2002 the company had over 650 salons around the world, employing 4200 people. The network of the company was $100 million SOME FAMOUS WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS

25. Started her own company in 1978 Initial investment 10000it is the first ISO 9001 company in biotechnology & the first Indian company to produce human insulin having pichia pastories - anyeast organism as raw material Dr. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw

26. Ekta kapoor born on 7 june 1975 She is a television, film producer and joint MD of balaji telefilms. 2012 asia’s social empowerment award. Ekta kapoor

27. Born on 28 october 1955 in madras, tamil nadu Chairman and CEO of pepsico Nooyi has been named 2009 CEO of the year by global supply chain leaders group Indra krishnamurthy nooyi

28. Microsoft India managing director, leads Microsoft's sales and marketing operations in the country. A Stephenian (graduated in 1980), she passed out of Delhi's Faculty of Management Studies in 1982. Back then, while she was keen to join FMCG majors like Hindustan Lever and Asian Paints, both companies rejected Dhawan as they did not want to appoint women for marketing. Neelam Dhawan

29. Managing director of apollo hospitals In sep 2012, she the was elected to the board as independent director of medical technology company Medtronic.she master,s degree in public administration from annamalia university. Preetha Reddy

30. Born on 1967 she was nominated for the economic times awards as the businessperson of the year (2002-2003) Paul has been conferred with the padma shri awardby govt of India on eve of the republic day, Jan 2012 Priya Paul