Redefining Entreprenuership: Impact on Gender Differences

The general issue of Gender and Entrepreneurship seeks to access and address multiple strands in the scholarship of entrepreneurship around women. The nexus between successful entrepreneurship and sustainable development of women is at the centre of this essay. The purpose of the paper is to explore the challenges and opportunities that on the one hand relates to a much broader vision of liberation and feminism globally and on the other, creates a local defence mechanism in the form of entrepreneurial activity. Entrepreneurship development helps educated and uneducated, urban and rural women in acquiring skills for both wage and self employment; expertise and knowledge-building exercises for themselves and for other women by inspiration and motivation. Entrepreneurship, in short ensures inclusive growth through wealth-creation and employment generation and human development. Progressive steps, with sincere efforts and focussed attention by women will help them cross from feminine entrepreneurs to successful entrepreneurs. They need to relate their ‘purpose’ with ‘processes and ‘performance’ with the right indicators and ingredients. We admit that “women hold up half the world”; they are able to deal with the details of business but many things around them crush their ambitions, derail their dreams and prevents their true-value competition and contributions. Change and accommodation can keep them innovative. What women have proved in the realm of microfinance should be a lesson in organisation and group management of resources in general. This paper, therefore seeks to explore/explain the hidden as well as surfaced asymmetries as well as the diverse avenues that make the integrated environment for women even as we try to understand the elements of their entrepreneurial identity, ability and flexibility.