Women's Entrepreneur ship: Obstacles and Issues in India

Entrepreneurship is now widely recognized as a tool of economic development in India. Because of this recognition, congenial supportive environment has been created over the years for the women and thus more and more women entrepreneur are getting involved in business as well as in self employment activities. Major objectives of the study are to ascertain the factors in the emergence of women entrepreneurs understand the type of entrepreneurship taken by trained and untrained women entrepreneurs. To examine difficulties faced by women entrepreneurs. The study reveals that there are several factors for emergence of women entrepreneurship in India such as family background, motivating and facilitating factors, ambitions, attitudes of family and society, government policy of funds, marketing systems, training programmes etc. At the end the paper makes some suggestions for increase or promotion of women entrepreneurs and healthy growth of women entrepreneurs in India.