Determinants Influencing Women Entrepreneurship: An Analysis of Challenges and Opportunities

Sunpreet Sahni () and Amrit Kaur
Additional contact information
Amrit Kaur: IKG Punjab Technical University

A chapter in Women Entrepreneurship Policy, 2024, pp 151-167 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The entrepreneurial arena for women is relatively challenging, as it is characterized by male domination; lacking of entrepreneurial awareness; gender biases; lack of access to necessary resources, which result in social and cultural voids. Despite these challenges, several determinants drive women to enter this arena with the desire to be independent and the desire to make their presence visible, regardless of job scarcity and maintaining a work-life balance. The chapter aims to identify and further bifurcate the determinants that create opportunities and challenges for women entrepreneurs striving to accomplish their professional dreams. The chapter is structured outlining the three objectives—the first section explores the research question by administering SWOC Matrix; the second part investigates the determinants that are categorized as personal, sociocultural, structural, and industrial factors influencing women entrepreneurs and eventually, the third segment provides strategies and directions for managing the identified factors that can be channelized to offer more opportunities for woman entrepreneurs. The secondary data have been assimilated from documented Scopus and Web of Science literature. The findings highlight that women entrepreneurs come across more roadblocks as compared to the new openings stemming from gender discrimination and stereotyping, which deliberates to fill the research gap, as all the determinants have not been researched in totality till date.

Keywords: Women entrepreneurship; SWOC analysis; Socio-cultural determinants; Personal determinants; Structural determinants; Industrial determinants; Work-life balance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-981-97-3607-2_8

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9789819736072

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-97-3607-2_8

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Springer Books from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().