scholarly journals Strategic Entrepreneurial Dimensions of Rural Self Employed Women in Kerala: A Micro-Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Liji Samuel
Keyword(s):  
Household Income ◽  
Women Entrepreneurs ◽  
Business Growth ◽  
Indian Women ◽  
The Past ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Commercial World ◽  
Employed Women

For the past 25 years, Indian women have taken a bold stance to overcome the illicit commercial world to this day. Women’s business growth can be seen as a way to empower women. During the period of participation, women’s participation in household income has increased. In India, women entrepreneurs face many challenges in starting their businesses. Earlier, women were reported to have more problems than other men in their families and discrimination against women.

Exploring the Risky Terrain of Entrepreneurship With Support From Developmental Relationships: Narratives From Indian Women Entrepreneurs

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-149
Author(s):  
Sanghamitra Chaudhuri ◽  
Rajashi Ghosh ◽  
Yogita Abichandani
Keyword(s):  
Women Entrepreneurs ◽  
Western Hemisphere ◽  
Venture Capitalists ◽  
Developmental Relationships ◽  
Indian Women ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Past ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Strategic Perspective

The Problem There has been a burgeoning interest in studies on women entrepreneurs in the past decade, but in most studies conducted thus far, the scope has remained narrow with the focus mostly on strategic perspective and not so much on the individual-level understanding of the entrepreneurs. Furthermore, the limited number of studies that have looked into novice women entrepreneurs are restricted to western hemisphere, and to our knowledge, no study has looked into narratives on how women entrepreneurs in India benefit from various developmental relationships over the course of their entrepreneurial journey. The Solution Using narrative inquiry, we explore the stories of six urban women entrepreneurs in India illustrating how and why they started their careers in entrepreneurship, the challenges they experienced along the way, and how the varied developmental relationships they nurtured over time supported them to cope with those challenges. The Stakeholders The article aimed at venture capitalists that extend support to women entrepreneurs and to women who are considering to pursue entrepreneurship. The findings can guide them to anticipate the challenges and opportunities commonly experienced by women entrepreneurs and appreciate the value of developmental relationships that help to sustain motivation to be entrepreneurs.

scholarly journals Bios, mythoi and women entrepreneurs: A Wynterian analysis of the intersectional impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-employed women and women-owned businesses

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
pp. 391-403 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Martinez Dy ◽  
Dilani Jayawarna
Keyword(s):  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Women Entrepreneurs ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Labour Force Survey ◽  
The Past ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Employed Women ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
And Gender

Decolonial philosopher Sylvia Wynter theorises the human animal as formed by both bios and mythoi, or matter and meaning. This article adopts this ontological perspective to explore the effects of the COVID-19 crisis on UK self-employed women and women-owned businesses through an intersectional lens accounting for race, class and gender. We argue that unequal health outcomes from COVID-19 are not solely biological; rather, they are also the outcome of social inequalities. Drawing upon the Wynterian elaboration of Fanon’s work on sociogeny – the shaping of the embodied human experience by the norms of given society – to explain this phenomenon, we contend that the same inequalities emerging in health outcomes will be reflected in entrepreneurship and self-employment. Drawing on Labour Force Survey data for the past decade, we peer through the Wynterian prism of bios and mythoi to argue that marginalised entrepreneurs are likely to experience extreme precarity due to COVID-19 and so require targeted support.

The Role of Female’s Participation in Economic Activity to Household Income The Case of Mizan Aman Town, South Nation Nationality And People’s Region, Ethiopia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kemal Omer Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Household Income ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Linear Regression Method ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Household Decision ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Descriptive Method

Abstract The main aim of the study was to examine the role of females' economic participation in household income. To achieve this objective both primary and secondary sources of data were collected from 400 sample size using simple random sampling method. The obtained data were first analyzed using a descriptive method to describe socio-economic characteristics of women in the study area. Secondly, to identify determinants of women’s participation in economic activities and household decision-making process logit model was employed and finally, multiple linear regression method was applied to identify factors affecting the level of women's contribution to household income. The result shows that female participation in economic activities positively determines by women's training and woman’s education level and is negatively affected by the presence of children under five years of age. The contribution of women to household income on average was estimated birr 32,400.50 per annum which was nearly 36.8percent of the overall household income. The possible recommendation is government and other respective bodies must encourage women to learn more and more.

scholarly journals Work-Family Conflicts of Indian Women Entrepreneurs: A Preliminary Report

1999 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mallika Das
Keyword(s):  
Family Conflict ◽  
Women Entrepreneurs ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
South India ◽  
Work Family Conflict ◽  
Family Conflicts ◽  
Female Entrepreneurs ◽  
Indian Women ◽  
Work Family

This article examines the work-family conflicts faced by women entrepreneurs in South India. The results indicate that female entrepreneurs in India may not be encountering the same levels of work-family conflict as their Western counterparts.

scholarly journals Women Entrepreneurship across Nations

2016 ◽  
pp. 189-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suja R. Nair
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Family Support ◽  
Women Entrepreneurs ◽  
Female Entrepreneurs ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Women Entrepreneurship ◽  
Significant Contributor ◽  
The Past ◽  
Work Family ◽  
The Many

Since the past two decades the concept of women entrepreneurship has gained recognition as a significant contributor towards the economic growth of the country. This can be attributed to the many encouraging factors like family support, flexibility in work family schedule, encouraging policies etc. Nevertheless, there also exist certain barriers that hinder their path of progress. In the context of globalization today, women entrepreneurs across nations are also engaged in identifying opportunities for further growth. In this pursuit they face a number of challenges amidst the opportunities. The chapter intends to make a contribution to the topic of women entrepreneurship by examining what initiates entrepreneurship among individuals, comparison between male and female entrepreneurs, factors that encourage women entrepreneurs as well as those that inhibit their growth and on ways to overcome the challenges they face.

scholarly journals Women Status in Labour Market of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

2021 ◽  
Vol VI (III) ◽  
pp. 12-31
Author(s):  
Tamanna Bibi ◽  
Amjad Amin ◽  
Jabbar ul Haq
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Household Income ◽  
Married Woman ◽  
Family System ◽  
Living Standard ◽  
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
The Family

This study analyses the woman's status labour market of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Four working states: self-employed, paid employees, and unpaid family helpers were investigated. Data were collected about individuals and household characteristics of women aged between (15-60) years from the Pakistan Social and Living Standard Measurement Survey (PSLM, 2014-15). The estimated results based on Multinomial Logit (MNL) suggest a positive and significant impact of women's age on all working categories in the labour market. The woman who owns a house, or the married woman, with multiple children or having a combined family system, or the residents of the countryside have less likelihood to take part in paid works. Participation in paid works decreases with the increase in the number of children, whereas participation in self-employment increases with the increase in the number of children. The probability of female participation in all four working states increases with the increase in the number of working individuals in the family. Whereas, probability of women's participation in the labor market decrease with the Joint family system, house owning, marriage, or higher household income.

Exploring work-family interface for Indian women entrepreneurs

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 203-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Preetam Khandelwal ◽  
Aakanksha Sehgal
Keyword(s):  
Women Entrepreneurs ◽  
Indian Women ◽  
Work Family
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