4 Challenges Women Entrepreneurs Face

1. Defying social expectations

Most female business owners who have attended networking events can relate to this scenario: You walk into a crowded seminar and can count the number of women there on one hand. When women entrepreneurs talk business with primarily male executives, it can be unnerving.

2. Limited access to funding

Not all startup founders look for investors to help get their businesses off the ground, but those who do know how difficult the pitching process can be.

3. Playing with the boys

Most would consider any given field to be male-dominated. It's even more of a challenge when you're coming in as a female having to give direction to males that may not want any direction.

4. Owning your accomplishments

The communal, consensus-building qualities encouraged in young girls can leave women unintentionally downplaying their own worth.

How to Be a Successful Business Woman

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All over the world, women are shattering glass ceilings and proving that they have what it takes to be successful business leaders. Here is some practical advice for becoming a successful business woman.

Read about successful women. There are many successful career women out there - in business and in other fields. Researching and learning about their background and career paths will help to motivate and inspire you. Reading their stories will give an idea of what the path to success looks like and what obstacles you might encounter along the way.

Research women in your field. No matter what field you're in, there are sure to be successful women who've paved the way for others. Finding out about successful women in your particular field will give you a better idea of what a typical career path might look like and highlight some practical steps you can take to become successful

Determine how to balance work and family. Perhaps the greatest concern for women in the workforce is how to balance work and family life. Women are usually in their key childbearing years while simultaneously trying to advance their career and climb the corporate ladder.

Benefits Of Women Empowerment

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Benefits of Women Empowerment:

Women empowerment adds to confidence of women in their ability to lead meaningful and purposeful lives. It removes their dependence on others and makes them individuals in their own right.

·      *They are able to lead their lives with dignity and freedom

·      *It adds to their self esteem

·      * It gives them a distinct identity

·       * They are able to gain positions of respect in society

·     *As they are financially independent they are able to spend on all their needs and desires

·      * They are able to make meaningful contributions to the well-being of society

·   * They act as capable citizens to make the country achieve enhanced Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth

·       * They get fair and equitable access to resources of the country

Increasing Women Empowerment

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Women empowerment is the much-talked about issue today. Women are increasingly getting empowered to decide the course of their life and professions and realize their fullest potential Women empowerment has become the buzzword today with women working alongside men in all spheres. They profess an independent outlook, whether they are living inside their home or working outside. They are increasingly gaining control over their lives and taking their own decisions with regard to their education, career, profession and lifestyle.

With steady increase in the number of working women, they have gained financial independence, which has given them confidence to lead their own lives and build their own identity. They are successfully taking up diverse professions to prove that they are second to none in any respect.

Tips for women in business world

Actively Plan to Be Promoted
On an individual level, perhaps the best thing that you, as a woman, can do is to actively plan to be promoted. That means you do everything with the awareness that you want to go places. Establish mentor-mente relationships with both men and women higher up in the company. Make clear that you are interested in becoming an executive with the company. Never wait for a promotion to fall into your lap.

Get Selective about Employers

One reason that many women are held back compared with men is that the bulk of family responsibilities fall to women. Arranging day care, cooking, cleaning, and much more are the duties of quite a few women who work as many hours as their spouses.Many ways exist to address or minimize this problem; one is to seek employment at companies that have proven reputations in helping women succeed

Work with People

This tactic is important for men, but it is essential for women. You must be able to understand how the various people you work with (supervisors, colleagues, subordinates, clients, and so on) communicate and process information, and discover how to best reach them. In this case, “reaching them” may entail how to motivate them, how to lead them, how to communicate with them, and how to be firm with them. It is unlikely that a one-size-fits-all approach will be successful.

Have Joys and Hobbies

Work cannot be your sole pleasure or goal in life. Perhaps this sounds counterproductive; after all, if you want to go far in business, should you not prioritize it? Absolutely. You should prioritize it but not at the expense of becoming a well-rounded person. Traveling, art, films, and volunteering are examples of why many executives and entrepreneurs succeed. Not only do hobbies provide a work-life balance, they help people understand how to better communicate and relate to folks in general.Hobbies also build your social and professional networks. The more people you know, the better. The more skills and talents you have, the better. Lively and energetic people are more likely to go places.

Most women in the business world have a much harder road than men do. The above strategies should help these who want to spread their wings and rise far.

Women entrepreneurs in india emerging fast: NITI AYOG

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                                                                                                                                                            Women entrepreneurs in India are bringing about a lot of development in the public and private sectors, a top member of the government’s think-tank NITI Aayog has said here. More than two dozen Indian women entrepreneurs are currently in the US on a business trip.

The visit is a result of the Global Entrepreneurship Summit(GES) co-hosted by India and the US in Hyderabad in November which was also attended by Ivanka Trump, the advisor and daughter of US President Donald Trump.

A lot of development is happening in both the private and public sector among women entrepreneurs, NITI Aayog member Anna Roy told a Washington DC audience yesterday. “What is required is to create awareness, bring visibility to the existing initiatives, bring departments together, enable partner connect, consolidate and leverage from all these efforts,” she said.

First railway station in India operated totally by women

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                                               Jaipur's  Gandhi Nagar railway station has become the first non-suburban station in the country to be completely operated by women.

From selling and checking of tickets to security, all the operations will be controlled and operated by the 40 women.

Of 40, four will look after train operations, eight will do bookings, six will handle reservations, six will check tickets and make an announcement, 10 will look after RPF while remaining six will take up other small work.

The staff will work in three shifts of eight hours.

Neelam Jatav will be Gandhi Nagar's first woman station superintendent (SS).

The plan of all women crew was reportedly initiated by NWR's Chief Public Relations Officer (CPRO) and executed by Divisional Railway Manager and other railway officials.

Rajasthan Government has also supported by posting GRP and lady traffic police officials at this station.

Importance of women in business

Women play crucial role in business. They are not only educated, talented, confident, ambitious but career oriented also. This helps them to shuffle tasks, manage all the chores and strike a fine balance between professional and personal life. They have got a good foresight, patience, negotiating and budgeting skills.

Today women have demonstrated their multi-tasking ability. They can plan and organize their small ventures efficiently. Women have greater freedom of putting her creativity in their work when they have their own enterprise. Technology has given them chance to start and manage their business and pursue their dreams.

At present women in india are crossing the threshold, overcoming the barriers and discovering their own potential and identity.

Influential faces in business

1.         

No doubt Rajshree Pathy has broken many a glass ceiling, taking over as the first female managing director of a sugar mill in 1990, after the untimely death of her father G. Vardaraj, who had set up Rajshree Sugars and Chemicals, as well as becoming the first woman president of the Indian Sugar Mills Association in 2004/05. It has also ventured into a number of new areas in recent years, including food, energy and agri-business.

 2.

Prathap C. Reddy, the Chairman of Apollo Hospitals, refers to Suneeta, the second of his four daughters who keeps a tight grip on group finances, as Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth, for the group. Her role, she says, "is to ensure continuous improvement in RoC and growth for the future. I think we are a great growth story for the next two decades and more considering our integrated health care delivery and the capacities we have created.

3.

Anita Dongre has taken high fashion to far-flung corners of the country. Her brands, AND and Global Desi, are present in more than 50 cities. Her company, House Of Anita Dongre, set up as many as 100 stores in 2016 to take the total to 283. Her most recent offering, Anita Dongre Grassroot, is a handcrafted western wear brand for which she has worked with craftspeople and weavers across the country.

Rising potential of women

Gone are the days when women were considered no match for all powerful man in this world. The new generation women across the world have overcome all passive notions and have prove themselves beyond doubt in all spheres of life. Women have come a long way from just being a homemaker to a successful entrepreneur. Their multitasking ability is more than of men. Women now are entering in the business world with enthusiasm.They are empowered with great knowledge even more than their counterparts.

Women are intuitively great system thinkers.They are now starting to do something that has been a male trait for a long time. Women are becoming risk takers as we have seen around us men take decision fast, while on the other hand women tend to analyse think things through weigh all the elements and then make a decision. Today we are seeing more women taking bigger risks in short time. Due to women's initiative for taking major decisions in the hands is resulting into making them even more successful than men.

The growing power of women in business

It used be that the business landscape was a man's world. But the time is changing, women are yeilding more and more power on both the sides of business transaction be it consumer side or the women already running big companies. These days it's really interesting to see women leading the business sectors which were historically male dominated. India has more women CEO's than USA. Women entrepreneurs can not only contribute to the GDP but can also play a key role in addressing societal challenges.