Abstract

Out of a population of 1.412 billion, 48.04% is female. Out of this, 13-15% run their own business. In a country like India, there are lot of barriers for women to start something of her own. This research is conducted to study the problems faced by women entrepreneurs in India. A questionnaire was circulated to women entrepreneurs to understand the problems they faced in their journey of entrepreneurship. The form was circulated among women entrepreneurs from different cities of India. A purposive sampling was done to collect the data. A total of 160 women entrepreneurs responded. IBM-SPSS is used to analyse the data collected from women entrepreneurs. Exploratory factor analysis was used to analyse data. According to the analysis factor studied have a correlation among themselves. Majority of women have faced some or the other problem while getting into their business. It could be either financially or the social, cultural or legal norms which stood as a barrier in their way. Women are slowly tackling these problems. To help out women, government have also taken many initiatives and introduced many policies

Keywords: women, development, india, Entrepreneur