Participation of Women in Rural and Urban Enterprises of Dharwad and Belgaum Districts
| dc.contributor.advisor | Hasalkar, Suma | |
| dc.contributor.author | Timmapur, Ashwini N. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-02-11T07:00:13Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-02-11T07:00:13Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | A study on participation of women in rural and urban enterprises of Dharwad and Belgaum districts is conducted during the year 2015-16 with the objective to analyze the socio-economic status, type of enterprises taken up, factors influencing the women entrepreneurial activities and the problems faced by the women entrepreneurs. The sample of the study comprises of 200 women entrepreneurs. The data is collected from the respondents by personal interview method using structured pre-tested interview schedule. Appropriate statistical techniques like correlation, Garrett ranking technique, chi-square are used to depict the results. Five success stories of successful women entrepreneurs is documented. The findings of the study revealed that majority of the women entrepreneurs of both rural and urban areas belonged to middle age group. Majority of the rural entrepreneurs had education up to high school level, where as majority of urban entrepreneurs are educated up to college level. About 90 per cent of the women entrepreneurs were married. Tailoring/ Garment business and petty business were taken up by majority of the rural and urban women entrepreneurs. More than 90 per cent of the rural as well as urban women entrepreneurs had invested their own funds for starting the enterprise. Grocessory / stationary enterprise was found to be highly remunerative. Majority of the urban as well as rural entrepreneurs sold their products in the local market. Both rural and urban entrepreneurs ranked the ‘duel roles of homemaker and entrepreneur’ as first among socio-personal problems. ‘Collecting of payment’ and ‘indifferent attitude of customers’ was ranked first by rural and urban entrepreneurs respectively as first among the marketing problems. It can be concluded from the that women in both rural and urban areas are increasingly participating in various enterprises for supporting the family. Her success depends on supports of all members of family, because of low self-confidence as compared to others in undertaking entrepreneurial activity. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810161162 | |
| dc.keywords | Participation of Women in Rural and Urban Enterprises of Dharwad and Belgaum Districts | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | English | en_US |
| dc.pages | 113 | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad | en_US |
| dc.research.problem | Participation of Women in Rural and Urban Enterprises of Dharwad and Belgaum Districts | en_US |
| dc.sub | Family Resource Management | en_US |
| dc.theme | Participation of Women in Rural and Urban Enterprises of Dharwad and Belgaum Districts | en_US |
| dc.these.type | M.Sc | en_US |
| dc.title | Participation of Women in Rural and Urban Enterprises of Dharwad and Belgaum Districts | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |