A Study The Role Of Women Entrepreneurs In Madurai City.

Abstract

The economic development of a country is generally equated with its industrial development. It is the entrepreneur who stands at the centre of the industrial activity and assumes various roles of a country’s development process. Large, medium and small industrial units play a mutually complementary role in the integrated and harmonious growth of the industrial sector as a whole. However, small enterprises outnumber the larger ones in every country and play a vibrant and vital role in the process of industrialization by contributing significantly to production and exports.

Now entrepreneurship is widely recognized as a valuable foundation in fostering economic growth, and become an important focal point even in the third world countries. The pace of innovation not only accelerates the small sector but also provides new opportunities for entrepreneurs anywhere in the world. But, the strategies aimed at economic development, in any country, would be lopsided without involving the women folk, who constitute half of the world population. Evidence has unequivocally established that entrepreneurial spirit is not a male prerogative. Owing to the inexorable forces of changes, several women have set the ball rolling.

The study covers a both primary and secondary were used in the study. The primary data were collected from a sample of 100 samples of women entrepreneurs. The secondary data were collected from publications of Ministry of Small Scale Industries, Government of India, Departments of Industries and Commerce, reports, books and periodicals. The data were suitably classified and analyzed keeping in the view the objectives of study.