Gender, Enterprise and Finance: Leading Issues

Book ID: ISED-233

Book Type: Soft Copy

Description

"The entrepreneurship route to women empowerment has now been widely debated around the world. There are two key aspects that form the compass of such debates: 1) entrepreneurship; 2) gender. Unless these two aspects come together in a synergic manner, the objectives of social policy relating to gender sensitive development are not likely to be fulfilled. While such an integrated approach to development need to be designed and taken forward, fundamental questions come to the fore: 1) Does women entrepreneurship differ from entrepreneurship in general?; and 2) Is the problem of finance essentially gender-specific, or, a more visible reflection of a general problem of all SMEs? A realistic answer to these two questions is crucial from the point of view of design and implementation of programmes meant for economic empowerment of women."