Women Entrepreneurship

A women Entrepreneur is one who accepts challenging role to meet her personal needs and become economically independent.

Definition : An enterprise owned and controlled by women having a minimum financial interest of 51% of capital and giving at least 51% of employment generated in the enterprise to women. Women who think of a business enterprise, initiate it, organize and combine the factors of production, operate the enterprise and undertake risk and handle economic uncertainty involved in running a business enterprise.

Why do Women Take-up Employment?(Needs WE)

y Push Factors y Death of bread winner y Sudden fall in family income y Permanent inadequacy in income of the family y Pull Factors y Womens desire to evaluate their talent y To utilize their free time or education y Need and perception of Womens Liberation, Equity etc. y To gain recognition, importance and social status. y To get economic independence

Categories of Women Entrepreneurs in Practice in India (Contd.)

y Third Category
y Illiterate women y Financially week y Involved in family business such as

Agriculture, Horticulture, Animal Husbandry, Dairy, Fisheries, Agro Forestry, Handloom, Powerloom etc.

Women Entrepreneurship in India

States Tamil Nadu Uttar Pradesh Kerala Punjab Maharastra Gujrat Karnatka Madhya Pradesh
Other States & UTS

No of Units Registered 9618 7980 5487 4791 4339 3872 3822 2967 14576 57,452

No. of Women Entrepreneurs 2930 3180 2135 1618 1394 1538 1026 842 4185 18,848

Percenta ge 30.36 39.84 38.91 33.77 32.12 39.72 26.84 28.38 28.71 32.82

Total

Women Work Participation

Country India (2000-2010) USA UK Indonesia Sri Lanka Brazil Percentage 38.6 52 43 40 35 35

Some Examples of Great Women Entrepreneurs

Naina Lal Kidwai

Naina Lal Kidwai, Investment Banker Fortune magazine listed her as one of the worlds most powerful businesswomen in 2003. India Inc recognises her as one of its most powerful investment bankers. But Naina Lal Kidwai, HSBCs deputy CEO, cant be reduced to simple womanbanker equations; her professional vision transcends gender

Shahnaz Husain
y Shehnaz Hussain Herbals- one of the largest herbal manufacturer in the

world
y SH Group, based in New Delhi orth $100mn y Employed around 4200 people, in 650 salons, spread across 104

countries
y Belongs to a royal muslim family, married at the age of 15 y Never advertised, relied on word of mouth publicity y First Indian women whose goods were retailed in foreign markets

Vineeta Bali
y Director, Academic Success Program
y she practiced law as a business litigator for three years, and then as a

transactional attorney for the Silicon Valley Law Group for several years.
y Her main responsibilities as a transactional attorney were in the following

areas: mergers and acquisitions, investor financing and corporate funding, business formation and corporate governance, securities compliance for privately held and public companies.

Ekta Kapoor
y Most dynamic young achiever in the y Country y Creative Director of Balaji Telefilms y Queen of Indian Television industry-Saas y Bahu Serials y Hands on manager y Best Entrepreneur in 2001 y Inexperience was her biggest challenge

Kiran Mazumdar Shaw

y The women behind Biocon- Kiran Mazumdar Shaw y Indias biggest Biotechnology company y Set up Biocon in garage of her rented house y In 2004 she became Indias richest women y Entered the Fortune list of 50 most pewerful women in international business y Forward looking, self driven,enterprising & outspoken y Awarded with Padmabushan in 2005

Challenges faced:
y Her age y Gender y Unfamiliar business environment y Technical challenges

Problems
y Dual role to play at workplace & at

home place y Subordinate to men y Just that her being women y Non-awareness of facilities provided by government y Competition with large scale units y Problems related to marketing

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