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Women Entrepreneurship in India

The document discusses women entrepreneurship in India. It provides definitions of women entrepreneurs and outlines some of the challenges they face, such as lack of education, social barriers, and operating in a male-dominated society. It also profiles several prominent women entrepreneurs in India like Indu Jain, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, and Falguni Nayar who have found success. Finally, it notes that the government of India has implemented various policies and plans to support and promote women entrepreneurship.

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Women Entrepreneurship in India

The document discusses women entrepreneurship in India. It provides definitions of women entrepreneurs and outlines some of the challenges they face, such as lack of education, social barriers, and operating in a male-dominated society. It also profiles several prominent women entrepreneurs in India like Indu Jain, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, and Falguni Nayar who have found success. Finally, it notes that the government of India has implemented various policies and plans to support and promote women entrepreneurship.

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Women Entrepreneurship

in India
Women Entrepreneurs

Women entrepreneur may be defined as a woman or


group of women who initiate, organise, and run a business
enterprise. In terms of Schumpeterian concept of
innovative entrepreneurs, women who innovate, imitate or
adopt a business activity are called “Women
Entrepreneurs”.

The Government of India has defined women


entrepreneur as “an enterprise owned and controlled by a
women having a minimum financial interest of 51 per cent
of the capital and giving at least 51 per cent of the
employment generated in the enterprise to women”.
Indu Jain
Indu Jain is the current chairperson of the Bennet, Coleman and Co.
Ltd., one of the largest media group in the country. They are best known
for their daily newspaper The Times of India, The Economic Times and
the TV news channel Times Now. Under her leadership, the Times
Group touched many new highs. She is widowed with two sons Samir
and Vineet who now oversee the family business. Although the
chairperson of Bennett, Coleman & Co. is one of the most prominent
and eminent roles played by her, she is also known by many other
different identities such as that of a spiritualist, humanist, entrepreneur,
an educationalist and also as an aficionado of culture and the arts. Mrs.
Indu Jain was also awarded the 'Padma Bhushan' by the Government Of
India in January 2016. But her portfolio just doesn't end here, Mrs. Indu
Jain was the guiding force behind The Oneness Forum, which was
formally launched by the President of India in 2003. The Forum recently
awarded the Mahatma-Mahavira Awards to outstanding individuals from
all of the walks of life and is involved in several activities that seek to
bring, and highlight, a sense of Oneness in the world
Kiran Mazumdar Shaw
Kiran Mazumdar Shaw is the founder Chairman and the Managing
Director of Biocon Limited which is one of the leading
pharmaceutical company in the country. Born and brought up in
Bangalore, she completed her bachelor's in Zoology from Mount
Caramel College, Bangalore University. She later did her master's in
Malting and Brewing from Ballarat College, Melbourne University.
She founded Biocon India in 1978 out of the garage of her rented
home in Bangalore. It was a joint venture with Biocon Biochemicals
Limited of Cork, Ireland. She started her entrepreneurial journey
amidst a shortage of funding, lack of qualified workers and many
other such obstacles. Today the company has established itself as the
leading player in the biomedicine research with a strong focus on
diabetes and oncology. Apart from this Kiran is also a member of the
board of governors of the Indian School of Business and Indian
Institute of Technology, Hyderabad. She was also awarded the
prestigious 'Padma Shri' in 1989 and the 'Padma Bhushan' in 2005 by
the government of India.
Falguni Nayar
Falguni Nayar is the Founder of Nykaa, the one-stop destination for cosmetics
and other beauty range. She endeavoured her journey at the age of 50, a time
when most people think about retirement she set herself into a new journey. 
It was after resigning that Falguni began to think about various ideas and also
how to shape everything in the form of an organisation. Still, Nykaa was never
really in her head until she observed the unbiased approach used among retail and
online beauty shop sales managers to select the best products. She saw how her
friends in the States relied on Amazon shopping. She saw the lack of good beauty
sale experience in India and combined the two to launch Nykaa in 2012.
Shortly, several well-renowned brands started listing themselves on the platform.
And soon enough Nykaa’s turnover crossed 200 crores, along with 850 brands
and more than 50,000 products.
In India, people are dying to get a basic job so they could become financially
stable for the future. And then, in her 51st year, picture a woman quitting her job
at a prestigious bank and choosing to start something of her own, would you do
the same? Falguni proved that it’s never too late and she has motivated people to
believe in the opportunities that can be created at any time and age.
KNOWLEDGE IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Women must be educated and trained constantly to acquire the skills and knowledge in all the
functional areas of business management. This can facilitate women to excel in decision making
process and develop a good business network. f) Awareness about the financial assistance –
Various institutions in the financial sector extend their maximum support in the form of
incentives, loans, schemes etc. Even then every woman entrepreneur may not be aware of all
the assistance provided by the institutions. So the sincere efforts taken towards women
entrepreneurs may not reach the entrepreneurs in rural and backward areas
Exposed to the training programs – Training programs and workshops for every type of entrepreneur is available through the social and
welfare associations, based on duration, skill and the purpose of the training program. Such programs are really useful to new, rural and
young entrepreneurs who want to set up a small and medium scale unit on their own.

Identifying the available resources – Women are hesitant to find out the access to cater their needs in the financial and marketing areas. In
spite of the mushrooming growth of associations, institutions, and the schemes from the government side, women are not enterprising and
dynamic to optimize the resources in the form of reserves, assets mankind or business volunteers.
India is a male dominated society and women are assumed to be economically as well as socially dependent on male members.
Women entrepreneurs faced lots of problems like lack of education, social barriers, legal formalities, high cost of production, male
dominated society, limited managerial ability, lack of self-confidence etc. Various factors like Pull and Push factors influencing
women entrepreneurs. Successful leading business women in India. Government takes various steps for the upliftment of women
entrepreneurs in 7th five year plan, 8th five year plan and in 9th five year plan. Women have the potential the potential and
determination to setup, uphold and supervise their own enterprise in a very systematic manner, appropriate support and
encouragement from the society, family, government can make these women entrepreneur a part of mainstream of national economy
and they can contribute to the economy progress of India.
Thank You

- Vatsalaa Toshniwal

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