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Title A Descriptive Survey on Women Enterpreneurs in Private Institutions: Challenges and Opportuinities

Author(s) Rafia Zulfiqar

Abstract This study aimed to investigate the challenges and opportunities which encourage women to become entrepreneurs and to identify the challenges faced by women educational entrepreneurs in private institutions. The population of this study was women entrepreneurs in a private institution, district, and tehsil Rawalpindi. Researcher used whole population as the sample of the study. An adapted validated questionnaire (having two main dimensions; challenges and opportunities) with five points Likert scale was used. For this study, 325 women entrepreneurs constitute the target population of the study. The sample was 285 women entrepreneurs and 40 women entrepreneurs were for pilot testing to check the reliability of the instrument which is .865. According to the research findings, major challenges women entrepreneurs face are a lack of product marketability, education and training, assistance from government agencies, ICT, Power, and energy-related hurdle experienced by female businesses (load shedding), and other problems without the support of male family members, as well as insufficient networking possibilities. Female entrepreneurs had access to family support throughout the early stages of their firms. Having access to funding was a benefit for female business owners, among other things. Results show that most of the items reject the null hypothesis so there is a significant difference between female entrepreneurs who face challenges and those who have opportunities to start a new venture. Moreover, it is recommended to support female entrepreneurs, separate marketplaces had to be created. Women entrepreneurs should be provided additional opportunities to grow the scope of their firms by giving them the chance to learn from successful businesspeople in other areas/nations. For causing such events, the relevant authorities must be held responsible.

Type Thesis/Dissertation MS

Faculty Social Sciences

Department Education

Language English

Publication Date 2023-07-19

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