Biplob Babu

SN-20121105023

Management
Studies

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

Science & Technology University

 Primary Objective
To examine the key gender issues involved in women
entrepreneurship development in the SME sector
with a view to addressing the problems of exclusion
of women from access to market, technology and
finance and make recommendations for the SME
Foundation to support Business Services for
Women Entrepreneurs.

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Secondary Objective
To identify the present status of women
entrepreneurs in different sectors and the role of
women entrepreneurs in the national economy.
To determine the women entrepreneurs profile,
their success indicators with reference to a
particular sector.
To review the current policies towards gender
equality and identify gaps.

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To assess the socio-cultural and legal barriers to
women's entry into enterprise, as well as performance
and growth in entrepreneurship.
To examine how womens business associations can
strengthen womens position in business .
To provide strategic directions on how to promote and
strengthen potentiality of women entrepreneurs in
Bangladesh.

 Our study covers women entrepreneurs of Bangladesh,

irrespective of their ownership pattern and type of
enterprises.
An attempt to project a broad view of the status of the
existing women entrepreneurs in Bangladesh.
Personal, social, psychological and economic-factors
have been examined in order to understand whether
these factors has positive or negative impact on women
to emerge as successful entrepreneurs.

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This study also focuses on women entrepreneurs access
to services provided by supporting institutions, and also
takes into consideration the impact of entrepreneurship
on the socio-economic status of both urban and rural
women and their living conditions.

Primary Source
Primary information was collected from the
successful entrepreneurs from different zones of
Bangladesh.

 Secondary Source
The website of SME and SME Foundation as
well as other websites.
Different publications.

 Present study covered women entrepreneurs engaged

in SME only. Large scale business had been kept
outside the purview of the present study.
Gathering information from some of the women
entrepreneurs was sometimes very difficult and
extremely time-consuming.

 Women entrepreneurs have a tendency to disclose

lower income and higher expenses. They think that
this would help them to get more credit.
Contacting women entrepreneurs to gather
information was a very difficult task.

Entrepreneurship is a set of activities that is

followed by the entrepreneur to implement their
concept smoothly.

Joseph A. Schumpeter, Entrepreneurship is based on

purposeful and systematic innovation. It includes not
only the independent businessman but also company
directors and managers who actually carry out
innovative functions.

Women entrepreneurs may be defined as a women

or group of women who initiate, organize and run
a business enterprise.

Kamal Singh, Women entrepreneur is a confident,

innovative and creative woman capable of achieving self
economic independence individually or in collaboration,
generates employment opportunities for others through
initiating, establishing and running the enterprise by keeping
pace with her personal, family and social life.