Woman constitutes the family, which leads to Society and Nation. Female entrepreneurs make significant contributions to economic growth and to poverty reduction. 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. But nowadays the status of women in India has been changing because of growing industrialization, social legislation and globalization. With the spread of education and awareness, women have shifted from kitchen to higher level of professional activities. Women entrepreneurs have been designated as the new engines for growth and the rising stars of the economies in developing countries to bring prosperity and welfare. Entrepreneurship has been a male-dominated phenomenon from the very early age, but time has changed the situation and brought women as today’s most memorable and inspirational entrepreneurs. Women Entrepreneurs may be defined as the women or a group of women who initiate, organize and operate a business enterprise. In almost all the developed countries in the world women and putting their steps at par with the men in field of business. The role of Women entrepreneur in economic development is inevitable. The growth of the proportion of women entrepreneurs in developing countries has drawn the attention of both the academic and the development sector. Now-a-days women enter not only in selected professions but also in professions like
Malyadri, 2012). Majority of the studies on immigrant entrepreneurship have sought to explain the causes and consequences associated with it. Questions regarding immigrant women entrepreneurs usually consist of: the reasons why immigrant women chose to become entrepreneurs, reasons why entrepreneurship at times become much common among some group of immigrant women as compared to others, the pros and cons associated with being an immigrant woman entrepreneur and the manners in which different immigrant women entrepreneurs deal with challenges they experience in their daily operations (Dr. Malyadri,
The Industrial Revolution brought many changes in production and trade farm fields for factories to America. It changed the landscape of the Northern states and the economy of the nation as a whole. One of these many changes included the mills where textiles were made. Young girls from across the country came to work in these mills to make just enough money for their families to survive. Sadly, these mills gave too many problems for these young girls.
The Influence of Woman in the life of Dunstan Ramsay Behind every great man lies a great woman. In some cases the woman herself may not be ideal or favorable according to society. Nevertheless, she seems to add character to the man, and influences his actions. Robertson Davies’s female character’s have done just this as they have had influenced Dunstan though his lifelong experiences. The role of woman is essential to the character development and spiritual meaning that Dunstan acquires throughout the novel Fifth Business and whether they have a positive or negative influence on him.
It is an often argumentative topic as to what shapes The United States of America today. Many events have had an influence to Americans behavior. But one in specific stands out amongst the others. Women. Women obviously had a rough start in the early years of The United States.
It helps give women the confidence to start, It gives them insight on how much money they can make and maybe inspire the women to be just like the investors. It is very hard to start a business, especially if you are poor yourself because you need money to be able to invest in stuff for your business. Just like Steve Jobs, Ronald Wayne and Steve Wozniak (The creators of Apple.) They started off with little to no money and had a good idea and turned it into an enterprise. Women are not usually seen as an owner of a company which makes it harder for investors to invest into their idea.
Before the Reformation, women not seen or viewed as equals to men in any way. Men believed that a woman's role is to bear children and be something like a housewife, taking care of the children and the house. They were not to hold any major responsibilities because society believed that it is not a women’s place and that they would not be able to handle it since they thought that women have limits. During the Reformation in the sixteenth and seventeenth century, society’s attitude toward women changed. The society started to view women as equals in religion and education, but apart of society still believed in the subordination of women, which caused some things not to change.
Although women have been faced with many obstacles that challenge their liberty and freedom, they have always proven men in power wrong. During the Industrial Revolution there were significant changes to society in America, including women’s participation in the public sphere. Although women’s action and evolution into the public sphere is not normally taught, they made compelling developments. Women’s roles were often limited to domestic work and caregiving as a result of the separate spheres. These spheres were created by men and women that divided their interest by femininity and domesticity.
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"The Woman Question" of this time challegend society 's view of women in this era. Women started to try to find their place in the world other than their homes and male approved professions. It is said that, "Victorian period motivated discussion and argument about the nature and role of woman " and initated change in many ways including literature. The industial revolution pushed women towards this furtuitous change. Women were also forced to take on new roles during this time due to the rapid growth in the textile industry.
Did you know that women are being hired by the top 8 tech firms in the world at a rate 238% faster than men? Perhaps it's only a matter of time before society embraces a female Mark Zuckerberg or Steve Jobs. In a new infographic, Coupofy.com looked at the growing female role in the tech industry and some of the trailblazers that are opening those doors. Of course one sure fire way for a woman to secure a role in the tech industry is to found a tech startup herself. 20% of all such businesses are now founded by women.
For the sake of argument let’s continue with the ‘Woman Entrepreneurship’ leading to success theory by supporting the same with the excellent evidence provided in The Athena Doctrine: How Women (and the Men Who Think Like Them) Will Rule the Future, by John Gerzema and Michael D’Antonio (published in 2013) John Gerzema and his colleague Michael D’Antonio had gathered opinions and perceptions from 64,000 people in nationally representative samples in 13 countries (from the Americas and Europe to Asia). This exercise identified a widespread dissatisfaction with typically “male” ways of doing business and a growing appreciation for the traits, skills and competencies that are perceived as more feminine. The results, published in their book The Athena Doctrine, reveal that 57 percent of people were dissatisfied with the conduct of men in their country, including 79 percent of Japanese and South Koreans and more than two-thirds of people in Indonesia, Mexico, U.K and the United States.
Many societies that denies women to freely work and be part of the economy are countries that are economically struggling (Schütte, 2013). Even people who defended the restrictions on women buying could not justify the male dominance by not answering why women should excluded. In the contemporary times women have more opportunity than previous however the number of women property business is still low. The worst form of patriarchy in history was when women were sold as slaves’ o commodities.
The global economy is not fit for women. Around the world women in other countries such as the Middle East, North Africa and Latin America struggle to find jobs to support their family (Mlambo). We need more jobs for women that have a safe environment, safe from violence and sexual harassment and that also has a higher pay. Women now in other countries are expected to live on 53-84 cents per hour, no one can survive on that especially when the women are single and have kids. Women are very independent and do not like to rely on someone else for
More than seventy percent of poor in the world are women, while the number of females living in poverty has significantly and disproportionately increased as compared with men. Women also have unequal access to major economic resources like credit, capital, land and labor. Restricted opportunities for career advancement and employment are available for women. These limitations restrict the capabilities of women to improve their monetary and economic scenario. (Zinn, 2005) Women are not represented appropriately at all levels of governments’ decision making in community, but specifically at national and regional levels.