Business Opportunities for Women Entrepreneurs

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Traditionally,entrepreneurship has been a male-dominated chase however several of today'smost impressive and rousing entrepreneurs are women. Women have broken down theglass ceiling of the traditional thought long prevailing in world and haveemerged as successful entrepreneurs. Many factors like urbanization, technicalprogress, women education, etc., have profoundly changed these traditionalconditions even in a developing country like, India. These days India has beenthe depiction of women in the top echelons of banking and financial servicesand many more sectors and even has emerged as powerful entrepreneurs. Women inIndia have already started to follow the direction that the women of thewestern world took more than eighty years ago. Women are increasingly becomingconscious of their existence, their rights & their work situations

Womenentrepreneurs are defined by Government of India as an enterprise owned andcontrolled by a woman having a minimum financial interest of 51% of the capitaland giving at least 51% of employment generated in the enterprise to women. Anestimation made by a daily newspaper revealed the fact that women entrepreneurspresently comprise about 10% of the total number of entrepreneurs in India,with the percentage increasing every year. If the current trends persist, it ispossible that in another five years, women will comprise 20% of the entrepreneurialforce. The present book has made an attempt to present some of the verysuccessful business profiles taken by women entrepreneurs. This book tries tocontribute to the emerging leadership of women entrepreneur and contains numberof project profiles suitable for women entrepreneurs. Projects covered in thisbook start from conventional projects that are pickles, murabbas, squashes,spices, soya bean bariyan, pan masala, readymade garments, socks knitting tosome project with which many women are not very familiar while others havemanaged to carve a niche for themselves with this project. These are:Corrugated Sheet Board and Boxes, Canning and Preservation of Fruit andVegetables, Printed Circuit Boards, Surgical Bandages, Agarbatti Industry, FastFood Parlour and many more.

Keywords: Business Opportunities for Women Entrepreneurs, female entrepreneur, Women Entrepreneurship, Pickles, Morabhas, Sauces, Squashes, Printing Inks, Masala, Spices, Socks Knitting, Mango Pappad, Aam Pappad, Pan Masala, Meetha Zarda, Soda, & Kimam, Cut flower, Floriculture, Solar Energy Water Heater, Soyabean Bariyan, Wick Stoves, Soap Coated Paper, Capacitors, Cattle Feed, Chilli Powder etc.