Awareness and Confederation of

Women Entrepreneurs in the Society

RM Sudhakar
27 Aug 2016

AGENDA

Session 1 Women Entrepreneurship

Session 2 Women Entrepreneurs in the Society

Session 3 Women Empowerment

SESSION 1:

Women Entrepreneurship

Oprah Winfrey

Kiran Mazumdar Shaw

Mrs. Vinatha M. Reddy

Sheryl Sandberg

Naina Lal Kidwai

Manjula Seshadri

JK Rowling

Chanda Kochar

Melinda Gates

Ekta Kapoor

Cher Wang

Shahnaz Hussain

Popular TV show

Facebook

Harry Potter

Gates Foundation

#1 HTC,

Indra Nooyi

PepsiCo, President

Biocon, Padma Shri & Padma Bhushan

HSBC,India; Padma Shri

MD & CEO ICICI Bank

Balaji Telefilms

Shahnaz Herbals

Grameena Koota

Ace Iyengar

WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS

Definition
Characteristics
Leadership Qualities
Why do Women Take-up Employment / Entrepreneurship?

Importance
Challenges

SESSION 2:
Women Entrepreneurs in the Society

WOMEN WORK PARTICIPATION

THE NEW THRUST

Harvard Experts feel that the basic quality of efficient management is futuristic and outlook and a

capacity to nurture and plan for the future or unknown. This comes naturally to women.

But this inherent talent of woman and her entrepreneurial skill go unrecognized and unaccounted.

THE INDIAN APPROACH

Earlier there were 3 Ks

Kitchen

Kids

Knitting

Then came 3 Ps

Powder

Papad

Pickles

At present there are 3 Es

Electronics
Energy
Engineering

PRODUCT SELECTION

WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS IN INDIA

SUPPORTIVE MEASURES

Direct & indirect financial support

Nationalized banks, State finance corporation, Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI)
Yojna schemes and programmes Nehru Rozgar Yojna, Jawahar Rozgar Yojna
Technological training and awards Stree Shakti Package by SBI, Entrepreneurship Development

Institute of India, Trade Related Entrepreneurship Assistance and Development (TREAD)

Federations and associations Federation of Indian Women Entrepreneurs (FIWE), Self Employed

Womens Association (SEWA)

SUPPORT AGENCIES - DOMESTIC

Small Industries Development Bank of India, SIDBI
Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI)
Ministry of Small Scale Industries (SSI), Government of India.
National Bank for Agriculture Rural Development (NABARD)
Department of Women and Child Development (WCD), Ministry of HRD, GOI
Self Help Groups (SHG)
Mahila Mandali

SUPPORT AGENCIES - INTERNATIONAL

United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)

Asian Development Bank (ADB)
International Labour Organization (ILO)
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

Center for International Private Enterprises (CIPE), USA

Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), Sweden
World Trade Organization (WTO)

WOMEN ORGANIZATIONS

Shri Mahila Griha Udhyog Lijjat Papad; www.lijjat.com

Mahila Bunkar Sahakari Samiti, UP
SABAL: Crafting Exports of Indian Handicrafts; www.sabalaindia.com

www.indiatogether.org

SESSION 3:

Women Empowerment

Empowered Woman

IMPROVES IN
PERSONAL
KNOWLEDGE

SELF
DEFINING
POWER

PERSONAL
POWER

AUTHENTICITY

CREATIVITY

PHYSICAL
STRENGTH

EQUALITY

MUTUALITY IN
RELATIONSHIPS

ECONOMIC
INDEPENDENCE

WOMEN
IDENTIFICATION

FREEDOM FROM
OPPRESSION

HAVING
POLITICAL
POWER IN
SOCIETY

Process of Empowering Woman

Changes in
women's labor
patterns
Changes in
women's
mobility and
social
interaction

Changes in
women's access
to and control
over resources

Changes in
women's
control over
decisionmaking.