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Motivational factors
Knowledge in Business Administration A. Statement of the Problem
Awareness about the financial assistance Entrepreneurship is one of the important
Exposed to the training programs factors of industrialization; in the absence of
Identifying the available resources entrepreneurship, industrialization cannot take place.
Women‟s skills and knowledge, their talents and
II. REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE abilities in business and a compelling desire of
Soundarpandian, (1999) suggested that for wanting to do something positive are some of the
entrepreneurship development in India, there was a reasons for the women entrepreneurs to organize
greater need to emphasize on research relating to industries. According to World Bank, investing more
process and enhancement of entrepreneurship. The in business of women rather in men leads to greater
problems of women entrepreneur are listed as, Stiff development of a Nation. Empowering women in
competition from male entrepreneurs, High price of entrepreneurship leads to break the inequalities and
raw materials required, Financial constraints, reduces the poverty. Entrepreneurs are faced with
Managerial constraints, Technical difficulties, Low many obstacles that limit their growth and survival.
ability to bear risks, Low level of favourable family In addition to this, women have to cope with negative
background, Lack of entrepreneurial initiative. prevailing social and cultural attitudes, lack of
education and training, as well as gender
Vatharkar (2012) examined the problems discrimination. The study aims at analyses problems
faced by women entrepreneurs in Pune district faced by the women entrepreneurs.
atvarious levels in their journey as entrepreneurs and
also found the factors motivating thesewomen to B. Objectives of the study
become entrepreneur. The study found that women The following objectives are framed for the study
entrepreneurs face lots of problems at start-up as well To analyses the problems faced by the
as operating stage like, role conflict, lack of women entrepreneurs in TuticorinDistrict.
motivation, lack of finance, maintaining balance To know the factors influencing women
between work and family life, discriminating entrepreneurial development
treatment, understanding government rules and To offer suitable suggestions to improve
regulations, etc. Further, it is noted that these women entrepreneurial development especially
entrepreneurs are both “willing” as well as “forced” women entrepreneurs
entrepreneurs. For some of them, factor motivating to
start their own enterprise is to support family C. Methodology
financially, while for some of them it is the urge to be This paper employed an interpretative,
economically independent. qualitative methodology to examine the problems
faced by women entrepreneurs. The present study is
Kapadia and Barodia in 2004 while studying designed to select 60 respondents.
the problems of women entrepreneurs quoted that in
order to improve living conditions, developing D. Significance of the Study
capabilities of women for self-employment had There is need for a clear understanding of
become essential. Women were often the main the challenges hampering the growth and
economic agents to ensure the survival of a poor development of these small ventures if meaningful
family. Hence, women get empowered if they are led solutions are to be implemented. Although some
towards entrepreneurship. They also reported that research has been conducted on entrepreneurship, it
there were successful women entrepreneurs today remains important to investigate challenges faced by
heading enterprises like electronics, multimedia, women entrepreneurs operating in the
garment industry and so on. They also suggested that TuticorinDistrict.
women entrepreneurs had to face many problems.
The above table shows that 60 percent of respondents are belong to the nuclear family. Remaining 40
percent of respondent are belong to the joint family. It is understood that maximum of the respondents are
belongs to the nuclear family. Nuclear family women are having more courage than joint family women.
Marketing problmes
Between Groups 1.098 2 .549 F = 2.894
Hindu 1.74 1.303 0.265= 0.05
muslim 1.00 .000 Not significant
christian 1.60 1.342
Within Groups 95.502 57 1.675
Human resource
Problems
Between Groups .971 2 .485 F = 0.346
Hindu 1.40 .968 0.982= 0.05
muslim 1.00 .000 Not significant
christian 1.00 .000
Within Groups 48.679 57 .854
V. CONCLUSION
Women entrepreneurs must have an
intention to fulfil their dreams. They have to make a
dream transferred into an idea enterprise studies show
that successful women work hard. Many authors have
tried to define these most important concepts
differently. For positive change to be realised around
these five aspects there is need for all people to come
togetherand have an input to ensure that all views are
included in decision making for women
empowerment. It is important to note that students,
especially women, should be afforded opportunities
and resources to make decisions and learn about
entrepreneurship.
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