Women Entrepreneurship : Issues and Strategies

Contents: Preface. 1. Women entrepreneurship in India: a review/K. Aiyadurai. 2. Entrepreneurship development for women/B. Shyamala. 3. Women entrepreneurs--a scan on their problems and prospects/M. Rajeswari and P. Sumangala. 4. Nature and characteristics of women entrepreneurs in India/N. Manimekalai. 5. Ills plaguing women entrepreneurs/Senthil. 6. Women entrepreneurs in dairying/M. Seethalakshmi. 7. Entrepreneurship development among women: recent trends/T. Rugmani Bai. 8. Institutional support for rural women entrepreneurship development/N. Lalitha. 9. Promoting entrepreneurship among rural women/S. Ganesan and R. Duraipandian. 10. Rural women entrepreneurs: problems and prospects/R. Bernardshaw. 11. Rural women entrepreneurs: case studies/Raghuraman Narayan and Karunakaran. 12. Women in brick industry/C. Muthuraja. 13. Women entrepreneurship and voluntary organisation/M. Soundarapandian. 14. Determinants of successful entrepreneurship: a study in small scale metal industry/M. Jeyakumar. 15. Entrepreneurship development in Kulathur Taluk of Pudukkottai District/V. Murugesan. 16. Education and rural women entrepreneurs/R. Duraipandian and S. Ganesan. 17. Entrepreneurship  development programme in Madurai: an analysis/Dhulasi Birundha Varadarajan and A. Marimuthu. 18. Mushroom cultivation for developing rural entrepreneurs/R. Kumuthakalavalli and R. Lawrence Xavier. Index.

"The object of this book is to highlight the development of women entrepreneurship, constraints for the women, strategies for the women entrepreneurship development in India. Out of 18 papers, first 13 papers have analysed the above objects and the other papers highlight the performance of the entrepreneurship development programmes." (jacket)