Role of Women in Nation Development (Book of Conference Proceedings of NIT Jamshedpur 2020) ISBN- 978-81-948050-4-5

Authors: Dr. N. Anitha Devi, S. Nidarshna

Abstract: The true entrepreneur is a doer and not a dreamer. The change of social fabric of the Indian culture, as far as the expanded educational status of women and differing desires for their cut above living. Increased female entrepreneurial activity emits progress for women’s rights and optimization of their economic and social living index. Women entrepreneurship  symbolizes women’s empowerment. Entrepreneurship is endlessly fascinating as people love the challenge of creating something from nothing and making it work. The need of the hour is to encourage women to set up their own enterprise. Parallel to the male counterparts, female entrepreneurs are catalytic in job creation, innovation and more tactile to the contribution of the Gross National Product of the country. An economy flourishes when women get a level playing field as that of men. Innovation and Technology are indeed the catalysts for Entrepreneurship. Despite handling all the social hurdles, Indian Women have risen tall from the rest of the crowd and are acclaimed for their achievements in their respective fields. Women-owned business enterprises help in stimulating others as well as generating more employment opportunities in and across the country. Inspite of all the huge developments that have been made in gender equality, the transformation of the Indian society, in terms of the educational status of women for better living, still fails to bridge the gap between males and females in the arena of education, employment and entrepreneurship. The objective of this paper is to fill in part of this gap and to explore the studies related to Women as Entrepreneurs in the field of engineering. The main significance of our study is to Revealthe profile of women entrepreneurs, determine their problems, Specify the mechanisms which support women and exhibitthe expectations and demands of women entrepreneurs.

Keywords: Entrepreneur, Technology, Problems faced.