ABSTRACT

Women entrepreneurs are defined as the women or a group of women who initiate, organize, and operate a business enterprise. Women being the integral part of any society in the world, are equally responsible in overall development of the nation economy. Since ancient times, women take charge of household management and freeing men to explore the earning sources. Now-a-days, the awareness among women regarding education has made them to work independently. This results in the paradigm shift of thinking process for professional women. The large number of women are now seen as turning towards entrepreneurship. The rate of growing women entrepreneurs on world forum has outnumbered the men in above mentioned sectors in many parts of the world. Of course, many challenges are still to be addressed like getting of fund, patriarchal male dominant society, lack of risk-taking habits, less tech savvy, etc. This study is intended to explore the rising women entrepreneurship contributing a large chunk in Industry 4.0 context for the socio-economic development.