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The Women Entrepreneurship Platform (WEP) is a unified access portal [clarification needed] which brings together women from different regions of India, across economies to realize their entrepreneurial aspirations.
According to CSO, 59.30% rural women are self-employed and male ratio is 54.50%. This clearly indicates that the government has been undertaking proactive steps to converge the entrepreneurship in India towards development of rural women. [10]
Stand-Up India was launched by the Government of India on 5 April 2016 to support entrepreneurship among women and SC & ST communities. Stand Up India Loan Scheme is a government initiative launched by the Government of India in 2016 to promote entrepreneurship and facilitate bank loans to Scheduled Caste (SC) / Scheduled Tribe (ST) and women entrepreneurs in the country.
Female entrepreneurs are women who organize and manage an enterprise, particularly a business. [1] Female entrepreneurship has steadily increased in the United States during the 20th and 21st century, with number of female owned businesses increasing at a rate of 5% since 1997.
SEWA originated in 1972 as the Association's Women's Wing of Textile Labour Association (TLA), which was established by Gandhi in 1918. [11] SEWA is located in Ahmedabad, India, the city where Gandhi's ashram still exists and once served to facilitate much of the Mahatma's work.
Women represent a growing sector of social entrepreneurs. Gailey and Bhatt Datta write that women are often driven to entrepreneurship in order to feel empowered in their own circumstances because they want: "(1) Access to resources, including preconditions; (2) agency, including process; and (3) achievements, including outcomes." [4]
Manisha Girotra, CEO, Moelis India; Naina Lal Kidwai, Group General Manager and Country Head of HSBC India; Renuka Ramnath, founder of Multiples Alternate Asset Management; Shikha Sharma (born 1960), AXIS Bank Former CEO - now retired; Snehlata Shrivastava, Executive Director, National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development [3]
National Entrepreneurship Network or NEN [4] is a community dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship. Services focus on providing institutional capacity building , entrepreneur support, entrepreneurial eco-system and national platforms.