*Associate Professor, Department of Management & Commerce, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
**Assistant Professor & Research Scholar, Department of Business Management, Stanley College of Engineering & Technology for Women, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Online published on 3 June, 2015.
According to a World Bank report published in 2012 female population (% of total) in India was last reported at 48.37 in 2011 i.e., nearly half of the total population is dominant by females. The overall economic development of any society or a country is also dependent upon women as its She who constitutes the family, leading to the society and then to Nation. Women entrepreneurship is a complex task combined with struggle, various risks and efforts. No one can understand the triumph, trials, and tribulations of a women entrepreneur other than the women involved in it.
While women have to go through the same stages of risk in setting up their business as do men undergo and witness similar challenges irrespective of gender. In parallel to all this women entrepreneurs have to face other numerous initial risks before the real show begins. Winds of change are visible with the emerging trends of Women Entrepreneurships which leads to internal and external risks faced by them at different levels. Women have left the secured domain of their home and are now in the battlefield of life, fully armored with their talent. This paper is intended to find out the reasons behind the risk faced by them as well as suggest ways to eliminate and reduce hurdles of women entrepreneurship development in India.
Business Risk, Entrepreneurship, Women Entrepreneurship, Challenges
