International Research Journal of Education and Technology

Women entrepreneurship in India is fastly growing and rising entry of womento different cadres is making the nation as a fastly developing nation. As per thereports, presently 163 million women have their own enterprises and there has beena 10 percent growth each year since 2014.The gender gaps are now getting down by around 5 percent. Some of theimportant facts related to women entrepreneurship are presented here:Between 1997-2017, the women owned enterprises have grown 114 percent and therate of growth is over 2.5 times in comparison with national growth inentrepreneurship.Women in India owns 39 percent of all businesses but still the women own about 8percent of employment and 4 percent share in revenues.As per the reports of Development Commissioner from Ministry of MSME,Government of India, the women participation in Small Scale Industries were beenevaluated and the census is prepared on the basis of the number of enterprise unitsmanaged by the women and also the number of women owned enterprises in all the states and Union Territories in India.Thus, the study aim is the problems and prospects of women entrepreneurs in Nizamabad district of Telangana.

Keywords: Women entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship growth, key to success, problems, challenges.