ROLE OF RURAL AND URBAN WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS AT KARNATAKA

Abstract

Women entrepreneurs face a extensive range of barrier and challenges, It is a general belief in many cultures that the role of women is to build and maintain the homely affairs like task of fetching water, cooking and rearing children. Since the turn of the century, the status of women.in India has been changing due to growing industrialization, globalization, and social legislation. With the spread of education and awareness, women have shifted from kitchen to higher level of Professional activities. The paper aims to analysis the role of the women entrepreneurs in rural and urban in Karnataka. Rural and urban women's constitutes the family, which leads to society and nation. Social and economic development of women is necessary for overall economic development of any society. Entrepreneurship is the state of mind which every women has in her but has not been capitalized in India in way in which it should be, due to change in environment, now people are more comfortable to accept leading role of women in our society. Women entrepreneur is gaining importance in India in the wake of globalization and economic liberalization. The women entrepreneurs have generally gained potential from the nancial institutions especially micronance institutions in the form of SHG. In fact these institutions are making women as economically independent if not sound one. This study examines the difference between the role of rural and urban women entrepreneurs, the study tries to evaluate the role of rural and urban women entrepreneurs in economic development – determine the problem and examine the challenges faced by rural and urban women entrepreneurs, to highlight the factors and major constraints faced by women entrepreneurs, nally to draw conclusions and suggestions.“Rural and urban women entrepreneurs”, in a larger sense, therefore is a women who accepts challenging role to meet her personal needs and become economically self sufcient. A rural and urban women entrepreneur faces numerous problems to reach her familial needs. At last, women entrepreneurs become economically self sufcient after facing challenges.