ICT and Its Role in Women Entrepreneurship With Special Reference to Kudumbashree Group of Malappuram District

Women Entrepreneurship

Women entrepreneurship is gaining importance and is now considered significant to global development (Brush and Cooper, 2012; Patil and Deshpande, 2018). Women entrepreneurs are playing a conduit role in creating ample employment opportunities that led to wealth generation, poverty elimination, education awareness and better health services and thus improving the living standard. There are many success stories of women entrepreneurs which have been discussed in the literature and illustrated the main constraints on their way (Byrne et al., 2019; Neumeyer et al., 2019). Without women entrepreneurs, economies could not achieve complete and sustainable success. Socio-economic development, which is itself a holistic measure can be achieved when women are empowered through entrepreneurship (Sajjad et. al., 2020). They also face constraints in developing countries due to education and socio-cultural factors and their representation is still low (Suriyamurthi et al., 2009; Tulus, 2009). As they are important contributors to the expansion of the global economy, especially in low-income and middle-income economies so, it is emphasized that they should collaborate with government and financial institutions to overcome these constraints. It has been urged that to tackle such obstacles, and it is crucial for female business owners to get recognized for their identity which will ultimately impact on the global economy. The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2007 report is the fourth series of reports on entrepreneurship which present an inclusive and up-to-date study on women role who occupied the world economy by entrepreneurial activities. Women are different from their male counterparts. They are more probable to share their achievements to others for both economic and noneconomic gains. Women are also important for the sustainable development of the country because of they are much likely to share their gains to health, education and other resources with their family members and also with their communities at huge (Orser et al., 2006). Global attention has been drawn to female entrepreneurship during the past few decades. It has developed in line with the prolific increase in the number of female-owned businesses and their contribution to employment creation and economic development in many economies (Tlaiss, 2014).