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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.
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.
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]
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.
Hina Shah with Narendra Modi, CM, Gujarat Hina Shah being awarded the Stree Shakti Puraskar by President of India, Smt. Pratibha Patil on Woman's Day. Hina Shah is an Indian entrepreneur who awards, including the Stree Shakti Award which was awarded by Pratibha Patil the President of India for her contribution in the field of economic development, the Bharat Jyoti Award, the Titan Be More ...
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]
The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (Hindi: कौशल विकास और उद्यमशीलता मंत्रालय) is a ministry of the Government of India which came into existence on 9 November 2014 [2] and gazetted on 8 December 2014.
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.