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Women Participation: Paradoxes in Management of Small Scale Industries: Urban - Rural Disparities

摘要：

Role of women in business is on the increase from a global perspective. Significant importance is given to women's role in small business ventures to ensure women empowerment. However, no initiative was taken in past research to identify regional disparities in the level of women participation in day-to-day management. The aim of encouraging women participation in business ventures was not only to ensure success to their endeavours but also to assure social and economic development in both rural and urban sectors. Conceptualizing the importance of aforesaid move and the degree of its impact on women enterprises, this study attempts to identify the regional dichotomy in the level of women participation by focusing on nine urban and six rural small business units purposively selected from two States in India. Hypotheses were tested with primary data collected with questionnaire administered in aforesaid regions focusing on a sample of 200 women entrepreneurs. Chi and z tests were used and results were modelled to express regional disparity in level and nature of women participation. This study developed a new paradigm that facilitates further research in this field. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]