Factors Preventing The Women From Entrepreneurship: Reference to Women Residing In Sengipatti, Achampatti and Palayapatti Villages of Thanjavur District–Tamil Nadu

Dr. RAJANDRAN K.V.R; MANIMALAR.R

Volume : III, Issue : IV, April - 2014

Factors Preventing The Women From Entrepreneurship: Reference to Women Residing In Sengipatti, Achampatti and Palayapatti Villages of Thanjavur District–Tamil Nadu

Dr. Rajandran K. V. R, Manimalar. R

Abstract :

The revolution of entrepreneurship has imparted many people in the world to be an ownership of an enterprise. Likewise, the movement of enterprise introduced in many part of rural area, which has provided the villagers to start their own business by using the resource available within their vicinity. However, many villagers did not take up the entrepreneurship as source of livelihood, either they not aware of it or fear of losing the invested capital. The study was carried out at Sengipatti, Achampatti and Palayapatti villages of Thanjavur District to find out how much the rural people understand the entrepreneurship. Sample size of 100 villagers taken for this study. A chi-test and Simple Percentage Analysis tools were used for analyzing the collected data. The result shows that many of them know the concept of entrepreneurship but fear that they may not able to sustain the business and do not want lose the invested capital.