The document outlines the syllabus for a B.Com 2nd semester course on women entrepreneurship, focusing on key objectives, concepts, and challenges faced by women entrepreneurs in India. It covers financial institutions' roles, government support schemes, and the functions and characteristics of women entrepreneurs while emphasizing their importance in economic development. Various types of women entrepreneurs are categorized based on background and circumstances, alongside their managerial and leadership functions.

1. B COM 2ND SEM
KSAWU SYLLABUS
WOMEN
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Smt. Uma Minajigi Reur
Head, Dept. of Commerce &
Management
Smt. V G Degree College for Women,
Kalaburagi

2. B.COM SYLLABUS SECOND SEMESTER
2.6: WOMEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Objectives: To acquaint students with the concepts of women entrepreneurship and to familiarize
the entrepreneurial development process. Pedagogy: Classroom lecture, Assignments and Field Visit.
Unit 1: Introduction: Concept, meaning and definition of Women entrepreneur and Women
entrepreneurship, Characteristics and Types of entrepreneurs, Functions of Women entrepreneur,
evolution of Women Entrepreneurship in India, Entrepreneurial skills and competency requirements
for women entrepreneur, Role of Women entrepreneurship in economic development. (15 Hours)
Unit 2: Opportunities and challenges faced by women entrepreneurs: Challenges faced by Women
entrepreneurs, Opportunities for an entrepreneurial career, measure to improve women
entrepreneurship, factors influencing the women entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial motivation
concept. (10 Hours)
Unit 3: Role of financial institution in support of women entrepreneurial activities: SIDBI, DIC, CEDOK,
RUDSETI, SFC, EDII, KVIC, (objectives and functions), Long term and Short term financing. Women
empowerment through Entrepreneurship Development Programmes. (15 Hours)
Unit 4: Government Schemes and Institutional support to Promote Women Entrepreneur: Trade
Related Entrepreneurship Assistance and Development (TREAD) scheme for Women, AWAKE,
NAYE, Mahila Coir Yojana, Mahila Udyam Nidhi, Stand-up India, Annapurna Scheme, Stree Shakti
Package For Women Entrepreneurs, Bharatiya Mahila Bank Business Loan, Dena Shakti Scheme,
Udyogini Scheme, Cent Kalyani Scheme, Mahila Udyam Nidhi Scheme, Mudra Yojana Scheme For
Women, Orient Mahila Vikas Yojana Scheme, etc. (20 Hours)
Unit 5: Project Identification and Formulation: Meaning of project, project identification, project
selection, project formulation: meaning, significance, contents, formulation steps, Planning
Commission’s Guidelines for formulating a Project report, Specimen of a project report. (10 Hours)

3. Unit 1: Introduction:
1. Concept,
2. Meaning and definition of Women entrepreneur and Women
entrepreneurship,
3. Characteristics and Types of entrepreneurs,
4. Functions of Women entrepreneur,
5. Evolution of Women Entrepreneurship in India,
6. Entrepreneurial skills and competency requirements for women
entrepreneur,
7. Role of Women entrepreneurship in economic development.

4. What Is an Entrepreneur?
An entrepreneur is an individual who creates a new business, bearing most
of the risks and enjoying most of the rewards. The process of setting up a
business is known as entrepreneurship. The entrepreneur is commonly
seen as an innovator, a source of new ideas, goods, services, and
business/or procedures.
Entrepreneurs play a key role in any economy, using the skills and
initiative necessary to anticipate needs and bringing good new ideas to
market. Entrepreneurship that proves to be successful in taking on the
risks of creating a startup is rewarded with profits, fame, and continued
growth opportunities. Entrepreneurship that fails results in losses and
less prevalence in the markets for those involved.

5. •A person who undertakes the risk of starting a new business
venture is called an Entrepreneur.
•An Entrepreneur creates a firm to realize their idea, known as
entrepreneurship, which aggregates capital and labor in order to
produce goods or services for profit.
•Entrepreneurship is highly risky but also can be highly
rewarding, as it serves to generate economic wealth, growth, and
innovation.
•Ensuring funding is key for entrepreneurs: Financing resources
include SBA loans and crowdfunding.
•The way entrepreneurs file and pay taxes will depend on how the
business is set up in terms of structure.

6. DEFINITION:
WOMEN
ENTREPRENEURS MAY BE
DEFINED AS “A WOMEN OR
GROUP OF WOMEN WHO
INITIATE , ORGANIZE AND RUN
THE BUSINESS ENTERPRISE.”

7. Women Entrepreneurship – Definitions
Women entrepreneurs may be defined as a woman or a
group of women who initiate, organise and run a
business concern.
Schumpeter – “Women entrepreneurs are those women
who innovate, initiate or adopt a business activity”.
Government of India – A woman entrepreneur is defined as
“An enterprise owned and controlled by a woman having a
minimum financial interest of 51 percent of the capital and
giving at least 51 percent of the employment generated in
the enterprise to women.”

8. TYPES OF
ENTREPRENEUR:-
1.Chance Entrepreneurs
2.Created Entrepreneurs
3.Benami Entrepreneurs
4.Natural Entrepreneurs
5. Forced Entrepreneurs

9. Women entrepreneurs in India are broadly divided into the
following categories:
6. Affluent entrepreneurs
7. Pull factors
8. Self-employed entrepreneurs
9. Rural entrepreneurs

10. A women who went into business by luck or accident
without any preparation, clear goals or plans such
entrepreneurs are called Chance Entrepreneurs.
2. Created Entrepreneurs
Government and some agencies that specifically identify,
motivate, train, equip and develop as entrepreneur such
entrepreneurs are called as Created Entrepreneurs.
1. Chance Entrepreneurs

11. 3. Benami Entrepreneurs
A women who act as façade for business of their
husband or brother, such entrepreneurs are called
Benami Entrepreneurs.
4. Natural Entrepreneurs
The entrepreneurs take business as the profession on their
own by self planning or motivated through profit factor and
also keeping themselves busy. Such entrepreneurs are called
as Natural Entrepreneurs.

12. There are some women entrepreneurs who accepts
entrepreneurial activities to overcome financial
difficulties. The family situation forces them either
to develop the existing family business or to start
new ventures to improve the economic conditions
of the family. Such categories of entrepreneurs are
termed as Forced Entrepreneurs or push factors.
5. Forced Entrepreneurs or Push Factors

13. 6. Affluent Entrepreneurs:
Affluent women entrepreneurs are those women
entrepreneurs who hails from rich business families.
They are the daughters, daughter-in laws, sisters, sister-
in-laws and wives of affluent people in the society. Many
of them are engaged in beauty parlour, interior
decoration, book publishing, film distribution and the
like. The family supports the above type of entrepreneur
in carrying out their responsibilities

14. 7. Pull Factors:
Women in towns and cities take up entrepreneurship as a challenge to
do something new and to be economically independent. These are
coming under the category of pull factors. They belong to educated
women who generally take up small and medium industries where
risk is low. Under this category, women usually start service centres
schools, food catering centres, restaurants, grocery shops etc.

15. 8. Self-employed Entrepreneur:
Poor and very poor women in villages and town rely heavily on their
own efforts for sustenance. They start tiny and Small enterprises like
brooms making, wax candle making, providing tea and coffee to offices,
ironing of clothes knitting work, tailoring firm etc. Such women are
called self-employed entrepreneurs.
9. Rural Entrepreneurs:
Women in rural areas/villages start enterprises which needs least
organising skill and less risk. Dairy products, pickles, fruit juices,
pappads and jagger making are coming under this category of Rural
entrepreneur.

17. FUNCTIONS OF
WOMEN ENTREPRENEUR
Women Entrepreneur is not different from the concept of Entrepreneur, all
the concept characteristics & functions are applicable to Women
Entrepreneur. The role of women in family & society is changing very fast.
Those days are gone where typically women are expected to look after
household activities change in various social aspect like equal treatment to
women, no discrimination among male & females availability of equal
opportunities to work in any field slowly these changes have forced her to
become more competitive & also encouraged into business operations.

19. 1. PLANNING :
Planning is basic managerial
functions of women entrepreneur.
It helps in determining course of
action for achieving various
Entrepreneur objectives like what
to do , how to do, when to do and
who will do a particular task .

20. 2.ORGANSING:
Every women
entrepreneur needs personnel to
look at the different aspects of the
Enterprise . She sets up the
objectives, goals, to be achieved by
it’s personnel. The function of
organizing is to arrange, guide,
coordination direct and control the
activities of the other factors of
production.

21. 3.STAFFING :
Every women
entrepreneur has to
perform the function of
staffing which includes
manpower planning ,
recruitment, selection and
training, placement of
manpower development
of promotion transfer .

22. 4.DIRECTING :
Directing initiates
organized and planned
action and ensures
effective performance
by subordinates
towards the
accomplishment of
group activities .

23. 5.LEADERSHIP :
A woman entrepreneur has to
issue various orders, instructions
and guide her subordinates in their
work to improve their performance
and achieve enterprise objectives.
It is the ability to build up
confidence and zeal among
people and to create an urge in
them to be a successful leader,
she must possess the qualities of
foresight, drive, initiative, self-
confidence, and personal integrity.

24. 6.MOTIVATION :
A woman entrepreneur has to
provide some personal
incentive to the subordinates to
motivate, persuade and inspire
them for contributing their best
towards the achievement of
enterprise objectives.

25. 7. SUPERVISION:
After giving instructions, the
woman entrepreneur has to see
that the given instructions are
carried by subordinates at work
to get the required and directed
work done and to correct the
subordinates whenever they go
wrong.

26. 8. COORDINATION:
Coordination is one of the
most important functions.
It creates a team spirit and
helps in achieving goals
through collective efforts
to provide unity of action
in the pursuit of common
objectives.

27. 9. CONTROLLING:
Controlling is the process
that enables to get its
policies implemented and
take corrective actions if
the performance is not
according to the pre-
determined standards.

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