1Assistant Professor, Area of Business Environment and Strategy, School of Business Management, SVKM's NMIMS, Mumbai, India, E-Mail id: sujata.mukherjee@nmims.edu
2Associate Professor, Area of Human Resources and Behavioral Sciences, School of Business Management, SVKM's NMIMS, Mumbai, India, E-Mail id: sharon.pande@nmims.edu
JEL Code: J23, L26, M13
The purpose of this study was to understand the influence of demographic factors on the role stress among women entrepreneurs and the choice of entrepreneurial activity. It examined the role of training and family support to deal with role stress. Survey research method was adopted as the design. The State of Maharashtra was purposively selected as the locale for the present study. The sample consisted of 125 women entrepreneurs, residing in urban slums, venturing into the service, trading and manufacturing sector and selected by the snowball sampling technique. The data revealed that about 37 percent suffered high stress levels. The training received by the entrepreneurs, helped them to deal with stress. Entrepreneurs, receiving support from the family in household work, experienced low and medium levels of stress. A reserve trend was observed in the case of support in business. The study was limited to two districts from the State of Maharashtra.
Women Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Role Stress, Training, Education, Age, Entrepreneurial Activity
