Unleashing women entrepreneurship in India: Opportunities & challenges

In globalized arena the hidden entrepreneurial potentials of women have gradually been changing with the growing sensitivity to the role and economic status in society. The participation of women in terms of entrepreneurship give significance to the economies and results into benefits like rewarding problem solving, organizational, leadership abilities, fostering creativity and engendering empowerment. In this paper an effort are being made to reviews concisely the literature in this field and follows a critical analysis of the factors that has influenced the women to become entrepreneur. This paper will also examine the government and institutional support provided to promote women entrepreneur. In fact, entrepreneurial activity leads to economic growth and helps to reduce poverty. Efforts are being made to highlight the problem faced by the women at various stages beginning from the initial commencement of enterprise till running of their enterprise. In this paper areas of improvement and the challenges faced by the women also being tried to cover.