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)

 Push Factors
 Death of bread winner
 Sudden fall in family income
 Permanent inadequacy in income of the family

 Pull Factors
 Women’s desire to evaluate their talent
 To utilize their free time or education
 Need and perception of Women’s Liberation,
Equity etc.
 To gain recognition, importance and social status.
 To get economic independence
Categories of Women
Entrepreneurs in Practice in India
(Contd.)

 Third Category
 Illiterate women
 Financially week
 Involved in family business such as
Agriculture, Horticulture, Animal
Husbandry, Dairy, Fisheries, Agro
Forestry, Handloom, Powerloom etc.
Women Entrepreneurship in
India
States No of Units No. of Women Percenta
Registered Entrepreneurs ge
Tamil Nadu 9618 2930 30.36
Uttar Pradesh 7980 3180 39.84
Kerala 5487 2135 38.91
Punjab 4791 1618 33.77
Maharastra 4339 1394 32.12
Gujrat 3872 1538 39.72
Karnatka 3822 1026 26.84
Madhya 2967 842 28.38
Pradesh
Other States & 14576 4185 28.71
UTS
Total 57,452 18,848 32.82
 Women Work
Participation

Country Percentage
India (2000-2010) 38.6

USA 52
UK 43

Indonesia 40

Sri Lanka 35

Brazil 35
Some Examples of Great Women Entrepreneurs
Naina Lal Kidwai

Naina Lal Kidwai, Investment Banker

Fortune magazine listed her as one of the world’s
most powerful businesswomen in 2003.
India Inc recognises her as one of its most powerful
investment bankers. But Naina Lal Kidwai, HSBC’s
deputy CEO, can’t be reduced to simple woman-
banker equations; her professional vision transcends
gender
 Shahnaz Husain
 Shehnaz Hussain Herbals- one of the largest herbal manufacturer in the
world

 SH Group, based in New Delhi orth $100mn

 Employed around 4200 people, in 650 salons, spread across 104

countries

 Belongs to a royal muslim family, married at the age of 15

 Never advertised, relied on word of mouth publicity

 First Indian women whose goods were retailed in foreign markets

 Vineeta Bali
 Director, Academic Success Program

 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.

 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
 Most dynamic young achiever in the
 Country
 Creative Director of Balaji Telefilms
 Queen of Indian Television industry-’Saas
 Bahu Serials’
 Hands on manager
 Best Entrepreneur in 2001
 Inexperience was her biggest challenge
 Kiran Mazumdar Shaw

 The women behind Biocon- Kiran Mazumdar Shaw

 India’s biggest Biotechnology company

 Set up Biocon in garage of her rented house

 In 2004 she became India’s richest women

 Entered the Fortune list of 50 most pewerful women in international business

 Forward looking, self driven,enterprising & outspoken

 Awarded with Padmabushan in 2005

Challenges faced:

 Her age
 Gender
 Unfamiliar business environment
 Technical challenges
Problems
 Dual role to play at workplace & at
home place
 Subordinate to men
 Just that her being women
 Non-awareness of facilities
provided by government
 Competition with large scale units
 Problems related to marketing
 THANK YOU !!