Achieving Sustainable Developmental Goals by Empowering Women Entrepreneurs

Abstract

Women are largely invisible in the mainstream of economic development. Therefore, the concept of sustainability to a great extent depends upon providing equal distribution of not only resources, but also the equality should be created between the various sections of society where women are vulnerable. Women's empowerment should not be associated with increasing their responsibility as a whole, but it is about respecting their role. To achieve the goals of sustainable development, the concept of women entrepreneurship gains prominence where men have always been dominating the business situations. Ventures by women not only provide them financial support but also makes them empowered. This chapter, by using qualitative research approaches of content analysis, literature review, and discourse analysis, attempts to find challenges of women entrepreneurship and suggest various policy implications to deal with these challenges. The major findings are women entrepreneurship can be a major source of women empowerment backed by a focus on entrepreneurial education.