Author(s): Dr. Mukta Surya and Dr. Sangeeta Gupta

Abstract: This paper tries to investigate the problems and challenges faced by women entrepreneurs in India. Women Entrepreneur is a person who accepts challenging role to meet her personal needs and become economically independent. Many women have this quality but they never got a platform to showcase their talents and hence they don’t know their real abilities. The present study “Constraints faced by rural women in social development by establishing enterprises” was carried in two blocks of Kanpur Nagar; in each block six villages were selected randomly and in each village 25 rural women were selected. Overall, 300 rural women were selected from 2 blocks of 12 villages randomly. Out of total rural women 36.7% belonged to 50 years and above age group, whereas it was observed that 58.7% rural women were doing agriculture activity. 28.0% of rural women were educated up to intermediate and most of them belonged to OBC category and they mostly followed Hindu religion. 66.7% rural women belonged to the income group of 50000 to 100000 and they had holding of about 2.5 to 5 acres land. Majority of rural women 84.7% belonged to nuclear family where they had 5 to 8 members in family whereas mostly were married. As a result, the study attempts to examine how women establish their businesses by highlighting their motivating elements and the connections between their socioeconomic backgrounds, motivating factors, and existing entrepreneurial traits.

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