Why we should encourage “Women
Entrepreneurship”?
Females are the emerging human resource
in the 21st century with huge potential to overcome the economic
challenges all over the world cross boundaries. Even though globally as well as
locally women are considered as a weaker gender in physically and emotionally,
today’s education systems in most of countries given them the required
confident and encouragement to discover the opportunities. Technological
advancements such as communication among global community created new channels
and flat forms for women to explore and exchange their potentials. Due to the
huge potential visible in this new field women willing to come out of their
traditional comfort zones to double the income in order to support their
families financially.
In most of third world developing
countries employees are hesitating to provide a comfortable workplace and set
of adequate work practices that allow a women to both perform their family
responsibilities and work responsibilities. Same time in most of these
societies’ there is a less tendency and poor involvement of males in fulfilling
family responsibilities such as take caring children, or doing daily home/
housemaid activities. As a result women in developing world is more courage’s
and have strong incentives to create their own work environment that are
balancing and favorable for both her economic needs and family
responsibilities. Self-employment is a better concept for balancing work and
family life.
Helping women to achieve financial
autonomy at all levels of economy is a form of activism for women’s rights that
hold positive implications for family well-being, community viability and
national prosperity. Support for female entrepreneurs is a part of a general
push to stimulate national growth of any country. On the other hand it’s a poverty alleviation
strategy where women invest more of their income for children and for the
community where they live. Support women entrepreneurship indirectly says
“close the gender gap”. It is also includes better use of national resources,
reduction in disease and hostility, improved human capital and finally the
growth.
Gender differences are vary from nation
to nation based on the culture, traditions, social and economic factors. But
anyway the restrictions for women are high across all the boarders. Anyway
women’s ability to own, control and grow her own business is just as important
as understanding the gender specific impediments to education.
Female entrepreneurship is a tool of
enabling women empowerment and emancipation and also increasing the quality of
female life. Indirectly it encourage to make changes in status-quo and
readdressing the balance of power within the family unit and female role. Therefore
as a third world developing country it’s time for us to take strategic actions
to identify, develop and encourage more women- owned business all over the
country across many industries.
