Women and Entrepreneurial Constraints
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.31305/rrijm.2026.v11.n08.012Keywords:
Entrepreneurship, Gender, Perception, CultureAbstract
In most of the nations today, opportunities are open to all, regardless of gender. Women enjoy much higher status than they did in the past. Women have established their presence in all avenues. They are working on par with their male counterparts without being discriminated for being women. It is education, skill and ability that matter in occupying positions. There are enough scientists, doctors, engineers, and lawyers, as well as personnel in the armed forces and banking. Many have risen to occupy the top echelons of political power as heads of State. The educational sector is open to all without limits or restrictions. In many sectors such as IT, there is a notable presence of women employees. This notwithstanding, businesses have failed to attract women. Particularly in urban areas, in the purchase and sale of Consumer durables, Food products, Textiles, Jewellery, Provisions and Stationery, Laundry, Bakery, and Electrical and Electronic service centres, where a large volume of business is transacted each day, women are reduced to mere sales staff or helpers. They were not able to encash this opportunity to run business establishments and take it to success. Wherever we see such instances, obviously women are just on the front line, and there is a heavy presence of men at the back. The scenario of increasing unemployment has put this question at the top: why women cannot start and run businesses, either individually or collectively, without external support. Much of the misery of urban women could be tackled if they gain momentum in independently establishing enterprises and becoming their own masters. It can employ many and further boost the empowerment of women. The reasons for this are many. Here, an attempt is made to go into this question through an investigative account.
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