Opportunities for women entrepreneur and their perception: A micro level assessment

Abstract

Today as entrepreneur women occupies almost every field and are gaining more attention and recognition for their contribution to economic growth of the nation. Literature proved woman as entrepreneur who faces many challenges in terms of balancing between family and career, socio-cultural barriers, male dominated society, illiteracy or low level of education, dearth of financial assistance, lack of technical knowledge, marketing and entrepreneurial skills, lack of self – confidence and many more. But, on the other side, opportunities for women entrepreneur cannot be ignored, which motivates and encourage many women into the field of entrepreneurship. Eighty numbers of women entrepreneurs from Dhemaji district of Assam have been selected by adopting snowball samplings techniques in the present study, out of which 36 numbers are registered entrepreneur and 44 numbers are non registered entrepreneur. The study revealed that. entrepreneurs utilised multiple opportunities but highest percentage (i.e. 83.3 percent and 79.54 percent) of selected registered and non-registered entrepreneurs' availed opportunities such as awareness training, skill development training from different institutions, which help them in different aspects of enterprise management. Moreover both registered and non-registered entrepreneur strongly perceived that skill development trainings from different institutions are always helpful for growth of their enterprises.