A study on women entrepreneurs in Tiruchirappalli district of Tamilnadu Dr. Jayakumr P.*, Dr. Vincentsahayaraj M.** *M. A.,M.Phil.,M.B.A.,Ph.D.,(NET) Assistant Professor, Economics, St.Joseph's College (Autonomous), Tiruchirappali **M. A., M.Com. M.B.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Assistant professor, Economics, Srinivasan Dhanalakshmi College, Perambalur Online published on 15 March, 2016. Abstract Women entrepreneurs may be defined as, “women or group of women who initiate, organise and run business enterprises”. The Government of India has defined women enterprises as, “An industrial unit where one or more women entrepreneurs have not less than 51 per cent financial holding”. Women entrepreneurship needs to be studied separately for two main reasons. The first reasons that women's entrepreneurship has been recognised during the last decade as an important untapped source of economic growth. Women entrepreneurship has been emerging among women of various classes. Research on entrepreneurships revealed that it has been the domain of men for a long. A research conducted in Tiruchirappalli district on women entrepreneurs revealed that they are found in micro scale of operation in the trades of tailoring, beauty clinic, fancy stores petty shops, food based products readymade garments, etc. They found themselves comfortable with the famine and service nature and micro scale of activates. It was underlined that the dual responsibility and associated lack of time to fully devote to business have made the women to confine to part time and temporary nature of entrepreneurial activities. Also these women have lack of support from formal sector such as banks, which made them increasingly, which made them increasingly, rely on moneylenders who charge really exorbitant rate of interest. Top Keywords Entrepreneurs, Women Entrepreneurs, Employment, Time management, break-even, Business problem. Top |