Role of Women Entrepreneurs in Agricultural Development: Problems and Prospects

These women, although they lived in a third world country, have the skill and gumption to go into business for themselves, and “be their own boss”. In the United States, more women have the ability

The free books, distributed through boutiques, doctors’ offices, antique shops, art galleries, and realtors, are updated every year. Each city’s guide is different, of course, but a typical example would include special restaurants, clothing boutiques, kitchen renovators, interior designers, realtors, artists, salons, home builders, wealth managers, doctors, garden designers, photographers, caterers, and maybe a private school or preschool. So many small businesses are owned by women—the latest figures show that women own 30 percent of all enterprises, a number that is increasing at a rate 1 ½ times the national average—that it is no surprise to find many of the businesses featured are female-owned.

Conceability to access to power is very limited and stiffed, but they still try to choose paths or achieve their goals within masculine society (Laura, 2009). On the other hand, agriculturalists women in Sub-Saharan Africa suffer from unequally in the distribution of lands and resources although they should contribute in the household expenses while they get less than men do, and they work the same as men do. For the classical system their issues is more about society role, but in Sub-Saharan Africa, women could have economic challenges out of that inequality. “According to sex role theory, we acquire our gender identity through socialization, and afterward, we are socialized to behave in masculine or feminine ways. It is thus the task of

Women especially being entrepreneurs is interesting because they suffer the most from Corporate America’s discriminative policies. Some may say that there is no wage gap and that inequality in business isn't a problem anymore, however even though there has been considerable progress in the rights of employees, wages, and policies there is still great improvement to be made for majorities and minorities both. Women entrepreneurs alone since 2007 have created 340,000 jobs in America’s economy. That amount of growth provides stability for an economy and allows diversified business. Increasing the number of businesses in America also increases the amount of business competitive meaning that the more businesses there are the more likely they are to compete with each other thus sparking lower prices, fair employment policies and benefits, and more drive in business big and small. people should educate themselves on business management and develop themselves as entrepreneurs to benefit not only them but their society and economy as a

The business world is continuly changing in all different types of industries. Women owning their own businesses is part of how our economy survives. Women owned businesses has increased from 29 percent in 1997 to 68 percent in 2007.women owned businesses take up 47 percent of all of the businesses in the economy (The Atlantic). Theses busineses bring in about 23 million jobs to the U.S. job force; also it brings in $3 trillion (NWBC.gov). “These jobs not only sustain the individual worker, but contribute to the economic security of their families, the economic vitality of their communities and the nation” (NWBC.gov). its safe to say that women are a huge impact to our economic survival

As executives or business owners, women tend to run their businesses differently than men. Almost every sixty seconds a women is starting her own business. As of today there are over nine million women that own their own business nationwide. Women own half of the businesses in the United States of America out of those 9 million women my mother; Lakesha Miller has owned multiple businesses. I interviewed my mother on November 19, 2016 at Olive Garden in Huntsville, Alabama. She is currently the chief executive officer of Tritel Customer Services and Answering Source. She is one of the outstanding women who have started, built, inherited, partnered, or have entered business ownership.

A recent survey by Catalyst says Indian women hold only 9.5% of all board seats in BSE 200 companies. Indian companies who want to promote women have very little talent left to choose from. The incongruity of fewer women continues with "the higher, the fewer" phenomenon or the leaky pipeline metaphor.

Furthermore, rural manufacturing has been identified as one of the few viable sectors for rural development (Freshwater, 2003; Rothwell and Bollman, 2011). Based on this claim, entrepreneurship tailored towards rural manufacturing may serve as a possible ingredient in the revitalization of rural Saskatchewan.

Entrepreneurship is the future of the modern society. They are the driving forces behind Indian economy. Entrepreneurs are people who come out with an new ideas , innovations , do things, which are not generally done in the ordinary course of a business. Empowerment of women entrepreneur is an new mantra for development of economy. The present paper focuses mainly women entrepreneur ,they still represent a minority of all entrepreneurs. It is observed that women entrepreneur networks are major sources of knowledge about women’s entrepreneurship and they are increasingly recognized as a valuable tool for its development and promotion. Of the 1.3 billion people who live in absolute poverty around the globe, 70 percent are

Entrepreneurial leadership is often viewed as a product of self-interest and individual innovation. Gupta (2004) states entrepreneurship is a discrete event based on the autonomous pursuit of innovative opportunities. Entrepreneurial leadership is defined as fusing the concept of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial orientation and entrepreneurial management with leadership. Entrepreneurship is seen as the base of the American economy and a critical driver for developing in local regional and national economics (Woods, 2014). Avolio (2009) listed the five diverse styles of leadership 1.Authentic 2.Complexity 3.Shared 4.Transformational and 5.Global. My focus will be on the latter two elements of his analysis, transformational and global entrepreneurial leadership as a means to bring economic development to rural

Since many rural households derive income from some form of non-farm activity, increasing the profitability and range of such activities would improve their ways of living security and living conditions (Awoyemi, 2004). However, expansion of these opportunities related to the asset status and barriers to entry resulting from inadequate or differential access to markets (Ellis, 2000). It is obvious that rural economy is not based on agriculture but rather on a diverse means of activities and enterprises. Much recent thinking on this subject is based on the concept of livelihood diversification as a survival strategy of rural households in developing countries (Ellis, 1998). Farming remains important but rural people are looking for diverse opportunities to increase and stabilize their incomes.

Women are slowly break through the invisible glass ceiling, that had been placed by male business owners to prevent women’s independence. With more women showing new entrepreneurs how to succeed and to run their business in the way that they feel is best, by either sharing the work load with their employees, or by acting more like a male proprietor is up to the person as there is no right or wrong way to run a successful business. Women have overcome many hurdles in supporting their families because given the choice, they will provide well not just for their families but for other families as well. Hoping that the future generations of women do not have to settle for what they are given, but go out and take what they want in the way of independence and future prosperity. It is up to us to change the minds of men and succeed in shattering the glass ceiling that they have put into

Caste and religion of entrepreneurs are the contributory factor of entrepreneurial development. History reveals that the entrepreneurial traits do not belong to a specific caste rather the entrepreneurs emerge from varied communities. James Berna conducted a study of 52 medium – scale manufacturing entrepreneurs and found that

In this paper the history of women in the workforce will be outlined, as well as the challenges they face. The changing attitudes towards women taking over family businesses will be looked at briefly, how women lead in comparison to how men lead, and a comparison of their leadership style will also be discussed.

This reality influenced the authors not only to study the field of entrepreneurship following a general and theoretical approach, but to focus on the obstacles women encounter when engaging in entrepreneurship. .At this point the authors questioned themselves: What are the obstacles and risks women face when entering entrepreneurship? Finding the answer to this question will become the base for concretizing the business idea through a business plan. This leads the authors to raise a second