• Dr. Neelam Maggu

Women are leaders everywhere we look from the heads of her household to the CEO of the company. Today, the women has been considered as the central part of the nation, even though marriage was the only career for most of the women and professionally they have confined their activities only upto teaching, nursing and office work in the traditional India but now the time has come when they are offering vocational education and due to this women are climbing the ladder of development and entering in the business world. The conceptual paper emphasizes the current status, prospects and challenges of Indian women as an entrepreneur in the 21st century. It has been observed that out of total entrepreneur in the country, women constitute 14% share which helps in the economic development. The present paper also explores the various schemes provided by government at National and International level to raise women entrepreneurship which enables the women to adapt with the changing trends in the domestic as well as global markets and build up their competencies because if every women entrepreneur serve the nation by marking their business profitable, then the economic development of our country will never be lacking behind from other countries. Despite of this, there are many hurdles which comes in the path of women entrepreneur and makes their path difficult. The study also suggested several business areas to further promote their businesses like papad making, event management, tiffin services etc. which helps them in becoming a successful entrepreneur.

Women entrepreneur, Economic growth, Prospects and Challenges

"An Analytical study on the Current status, Prospects and Challenges faced by Women Entrepreneurs in India", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 11, page no.d244-d256, November-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2211334.pdf

"An Analytical study on the Current status, Prospects and Challenges faced by Women Entrepreneurs in India", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 11, page no. ppd244-d256, November-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2211334.pdf