Social-economic constraints toward women enterprises growth in Uttar Pradesh

Women entrepreneurs can play a powerful role in confidence building and creating awareness in other women to promote self-reliance. On the other hand, women entrepreneurs have to face more problems than men entrepreneurs. They have to devote more time to the family and maintain a balance between their family responsibility and business. Other obstacles faced by women entrepreneurs include being accepted as a woman in business, lack of role model, lack of professional interaction, difficulties in gaining the confidence of their clients and suppliers, lack of adequate training and lack of related experience. The primary objective of this study was to examine the problems faced by women entrepreneurs. The present study was carried in district Hardoi. One block Bawan was selected in this study area. From this selected block, three villages namely Tatyora, Rukmanapur and Mujahidpur were selected and 50 respondents were selected purposively from each village. Thus, total 150 respondents were selected for the study. The data were analyzed and tabulated according to statistically. It was found that the economic constraints viz; lack of family income restrict the women not for doing any extra/other enterprises was ranked I with mean score value of 2.78 and social constraints viz., negative social attitude about women role outside the home was ranked-II with mean score value of 2.64.