Women Entrepreneurship and Problems of Rural Women Entrepreneurs in Punjab Province of Pakistan

Abstract

Of the total world population, rural women comprise of more than one quarter and world over they are an essential and major force in the development processes of the country  and they are also  the main factors for the socio economic progress. They have many serious problems like social and managerial, with the marketing and production restrictions. Different problems arises both from within and outside vary from enterprise to enterprise. This study was carried out in Punjab province of Pakistan. For this research study two districts of Punjab, Lahore and Faisalabad was selected out of the existing 32 districts. Multistage sampling techniques are used. From each district five villages were selected. From each village twenty women entrepreneurs were selected. Thus making a sample of 200 women was randomly selected for the study. To collect information from the women entrepreneurs on their personal and socio-economic characteristics and problem faced by them in entrepreneurship at field level, a wellstructured interview schedule was used. Statistical techniques like mean scores, percentages and binary logistic were used to analyze the data. Majority of the women39% where married. And 31% were single thy did not married.in the case of divorced and widow ,they were 27% .In case of experience most of the women58% were experienced and 40% were that who do not have any experience.52% women were in favor that they faced harassment problem and only 45 % said they did not face this problem. 61% women were in favor that lack of credit facility create problem. They face this problem and only 36 % gave argument against.