Odisha Economic Forum

Welcome to the seminar named Pride of Odisha Women entrepreneurs are being held in Bhubaneswar. It is a half day seminar on 9th March 2017 at Bhubaneswar. In that connection We would like to invite you to present a paper on the eve of the seminar titled Pride of Odisha-Women Entrepreneur to be organised by Odisha Economic Forum. In the seminar Pride of Odisha-Women Entrepreneur we will distribute award to deserving women entrepreneur so that others will be encouraged to go into entrepreneurship.

Tuesday 31 January 2017

mass of trainers

The major strategy is to develop a critical mass of trainers, so that all the universities and colleges of the country can be brought into the fold of this movement of women for women in higher education. Unlike other UGC schemes, this movement is carried forward through a series of workshops, which are conducted by an organizational structure—Local Co-ordinators and Trainer Associates, Resource Persons, Regional and Sub- Regional Coordinators, core Group Resource Persons who are the Manual writers and Master Trainers.

women helps the group to network

Minority members of the academic community in terms of senior positions, there may also be negative feelings of social isolation and intimidation Training with other women helps the group to network with each other and address issues of gender inequities. Women only groups further help women to share strategies, to increase confidence, as also to lobby and network with decision makers,who may often be men.

MICRO FINANCE

MICRO FINANCE

Recognizing the substantial impact of
micro-finance on poverty alleviation, both
governmental and non-governmental
organizations (NGOs) have been
prioritizing micro-finance schemes. In
June 1998, the Micro-credit Summit tallied
14,808,871 borrowers and the World Bank
chairs a coalition of lenders whose
objective is to extend Micro Credit to 100
million borrowers by the year 2005
(Panjaitan et.al.1999).

CORPO RET TAX

CORPO RET TAX

The Tribunal noted that the non-compete agreement was
executed on 1 April 2001 while the private limited company
was incorporated on March 2001. The Tribunal hence observed
that when the Partner had already undertaken a similar job
to be done in the company in the capacity of the Director, if
that be so, then he may not be able to fulfill his promise given
in this non- compete agreement.

GUJURAT WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS

Women of India have conventionally been engaged in doing house hold work and looking after the comforts and well-being of the family. The corporation plays a vital role in creating awareness in such women mass and content them to suitable economic activities.

In the process, the Corporation has developed various training modules in different trades and a massive training activity is carried out throughout the year in the state. The Corporation has also identified as many as 217 different economic activities either in manufacturing or in service sectors. The women applicant can choose any of these and apply for our bankable finance scheme “Ghar-Divada” in which they get a finance up to Rs.50,000/- through Nationalized Banks, including a subsidy ranging between Rs.7,500/- to Rs.12,500/-.

Above this, the Corporations organizes “Exhibition-cum-Sale” within and outside state and also help market the articles and goods manufactured by our trained women. This has given ample opportunity to the women entrepreneurs and they have achieved remarkable Sales and Good will in their respective fields.

The Rationale

The justification for offering the programme to women only lies in the need to bridge the existing gap between men and women managers in the system. The conceptual content of the programme may be common for both genders but the interpretations given to concepts in an all women group may have a different emphasis when discussed from the gender perspective. A women only activity often facilitates a dialogue on issues, that might not have been discussed in mixed groups as women are reluctant/hesitant to discuss professional insecurities with men for fear of being regarded as incapable.

issues of gender and the woman question

The primary objectives of the training programme has been to prepare women who have the potential to occupy management positions and to potential trainers from among the participants as also to sensitise women holding administrative positions to issues of gender and the woman question.The programme focuses not only on building administrative skills but primarily on motivating women teachers to see themselves becoming managers in the university system.The manuals offer the following rationale, goal, strategies and methodology for the training programme aimed at fostering a community of women in higher education. This reinforces the hypothes is that this fostered community would be a community of practice by definition and by character.

decision making leadership positions and gender advocacy

A workshop was held at Delhi in 1997 with participants from the UGC Standing Committee for Women‟s Studies and some other women academicians including a few women Vice Chancellors. The programme focused on sensitizing women in higher education to the current situation, raising awareness, and motivating women managers to aspire for decision making leadership positions and gender advocacy. It was then decided that UGC would undertake a similar sensitizing activity for which manuals would have to be framed keeping in mind the Indian context. The manuals presented by CHESS were reworked by a group of authors appointed as a sub-committee to the Standing Committee.

Commonwealth Higher Education Support Scheme

The Higher Education system was no exception to other socio-cultural institutions with their inherent gender bias and deep-rooted patriarchal value systems. It was understood that special efforts needed to be made in this direction. The situation was discussed in the standing Committee of Women‟s Studies of the UGC The Common wealth Secretariat, London, approached UGC to make a presentation of their Manuals, which they had developed under the Commonwealth Higher Education Support Scheme as they had noted the problem of the lack of women in such key positions in higher education in all Commonwealth countries, including the U.K., Canada and Australia.

foster and engender change

The present paper attempts to examine this phenomenon of women‟s collective in the academia to understand how collaborative efforts by women in the higher education system has been able to foster and engender change and how a rare sisterhood and bonding has broken invisible barriers erected by the erstwhile intellectually self-centred ambitions of the academic community to streng then women‟s resources and in turn to pave the path for an egalitarian and gender friendly higher education system. The paper interrogates/examines/analyses dichotomies inherent in the genesis and practice of such a fostered community, which has its roots in the existing system of governance, which may derive qualities of the same and/or replicate similar structures reconstituting power hierarchies and its pitfalls thereof.

pool intellectual resources

Power structures are resistant to penetration or restructuring and as such the higher education system is no different in resisting structural changes that could shift the balance of male domination in the hierarchy or jostle the status quo. Women in the system therefore have had to struggle for an egalitarian system, which would recognize their worth and allow for positive change. Individual efforts by sensitized and gender empathetic women were puny fists pounding against an immovable wall of odds. Increasingly the need for a women‟s collective in terms of networking, connecting and bonding in order to pool intellectual resources and create a power base has been felt by women employees in higher education both at the university and college levels.

institutional policies and practices

The increasing influx of women to jobs in universities and colleges as a result of feminization of certain jobs has led to a clustering of women in the lower rungs of the higher education system, thus generating so-called „pink ghettoes‟ of women educationists who have been unable to break the glass ceiling of prejudice and patriarchal assumptions on account of different factors that need to be investigated. The low visibility of women in the influential positions of administrative hierarchy has admittedly impacted the actual working conditions of women in the system and the need for stimulating change in the institutional policies and practices is now long overdue.

Higher Education system in India

The Higher Education system in India has, over the years, witnessed the influx of women as students and teachers for a number of reasons.The traditional power structures of the system have operated in ways that have not only replicated the patriarchal social structures of oppression and thus perpetuated the gender bias and inequity in the system but have also consolidated gender unfriendly institutional practices in the guise of institutional traditions and norms. In other words, “the cultural socialization in a patriarchal society is so deep rooted that even the educated are not liberated until special efforts are made in this direction” Traditional gender roles have been re-allocated even in the work premises, so much so that women are almost invisible in the managerial, administrative and decision-making positions in the higher education system.

women employees in higher education

The need for a women?s collective in terms of networking, connecting and bonding in order to pool intellectual resources and create a power base has long been felt by women employees in higher education. In this context the emergence and subsequent consolidation of a nation wide movement for women and by women in the higher education system, conceived and initiated in 1997 was a pioneering attempt. The present paper attempts to examine this phenomenon of women?s collective in the academia to understand how/whether collaborative efforts by women in the higher education system has been able to foster and engender change.

Higher Education for women's

The Higher Education system in India has, over the years, witnessed the influx of women as students and teachers for a number of reasons.The traditional power structures of the system have operated in ways that have not only replicated the patriarchal social structures of oppression and thus perpetuated the gender bias and inequity in the system but have also consolidated gender unfriendly institutional practices in the guise of institutional traditions and norms. Women in the system therefore have had to struggle for an egalitarian system, which would recognize their worth and allow for positive change.

social problems in india

women represent half of the brainpower available on earth, even then, they remain the most underutilized and suppressed resource of the world. Despite all such social problems, India is having a plethora of women’s success stories. A change in Indian society’s social fabric has increased women’s aspirations for better lifestyle and educational status. They have managed to succeed in such tough and competitive patriarchal society with their perseverance, hard work and diligence. Women’s persuasiveness, ability of learning quickly, open and free style of problem solving, ability to encourage people, ability to take chances, know the ways of winning and losing gracefully are the real strengths of women entrepreneurs in India.

indian women's

The educated women would never like to confine themselves within the boundaries of their house. They want equal rights, respect, and value from their male counterparts. Indian women still have a long way to go in order to achieve better position and equal rights because Indian society have deep-rooted traditions with male dominated sociological set up. Since, women are thought to be weaker sex, they are made to rely on men either inside of a family or outside, during their whole life. In Indian culture, men treat them as subordinates and they are only supposed to execute their decisions, in a typical family structure.

economic growth in OECD countries

Gender equality is both a moral and economic imperative. Closing the gender gap must be a central part of any strategy to create more sustainable and inclusive economies and societies. It is about fairness and equity, the realisation of individual aspirations, economic empowerment around the world and growth.Greater educational attainment has

accounted for about half of the economic growth in OECD countries in the past 50 years and that owes a lot to bringing more girls to higher levels of education and achieving greater gender equality in educational attainment.

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DEVELOPMENT AGENDA

Agenda,discussions on women's entrepreneurship should highlight success stories and best practices of related policies and programmes, to feed into the on going debate about the future development framework. A number of lessons have been learned from the evaluations of UNIDO-supported programmes in Bhutan, Mali, Morocco, Mozambique and Pakistan. Specifically, these programmes have shown that educating and investing in upgrading women’s skills can have a knock-on effect on productivity, efficiency and economic growth. For example, activities such as training and providing business support services, or even sustainable energy solutions, to women entrepreneurs can significantly increase the profits of their businesses, help to provide decent work, and improve women’s standing within their families and communities.

shea processing centres

Focusing on empowerment of women and entrepreneurship development, 156 women’s cooperatives are now engaged with three shea processing centres, at least 1,200 women have been trained on production and quality control systems, and an additional 30 tons of shea nuts are being sold to processing centres.Total sales of these cooperative groups doubled between 2009 and 2011, and the total revenue of women within the groups has increased immensely. Not only has product quality and safety improved but household livelihoods have also been strengthened,leading to greater food security and better education opportunities for children.

shea butter

In an effort to boost output and improve the value chain, UNIDO set up a programme, funded by the Government of Luxembourg, to provide better production equipment for women’s shea butter cooperatives and to help train them in organization and management. It also provided training to raise women’s awareness of international quality standards and helped to support the protection and promotion of rights through the creation of a community-based production system. At the same time, through a successful collaboration with French cosmetics firm, Chimitex, UNIDO helped to improve direct access to international markets especially for higher value products made locally from shea butter.

THE TREASURE OF THE SHEA TREE

Mali is home to one of the largest areas of trees in the so-called shea belt, which spans almost 20 countries across West Africa’s semi-arid Sahel. For centuries rural women across the region have earned a living by producing a butter from the fruit of the tree, which is then used in cooking and on the skin. Traditionally known as “women’s gold”, the butter is hugely important for rural women in Mali, who rely on it for 80% of their income But, despite this, rudimentary production processes have kept production stuck at only around 80,000 tons per year, far behind the estimated potential of 250,000 tons per year.

society and development

Girls and young women are encouraged to take non-traditional entrepreneurial initiative that challenge the stereotypes of society and develop a positive attitude towards entrepreneurship, business and self-employment. By increasing opportunities for both girls and boys to make life choices that go beyond gender-limiting cultural norms, as often seen in education, these courses help to create an environment in which female entrepreneurs can thrive, therefore promoting gender equality. They also support the promotion of youth entrepreneurship in general and the creation of clusters and partnerships to facilitate access to information, technology, and markets
for youth and women.

Education and skills training

Education and skills training are key to unlocking opportunities for all young people, but especially important for girls who are at greater risk of being left behind in many developing countries. UNIDO’s Entrepreneurship Curriculum Programme targets both girls and boys in secondary schools with the aim of giving them skills to develop business ideas and encouraging them to take advantage of business opportunities. Launched in Uganda in 2001, the programme is very ‘hands on’, using a mixture of classroom teaching, participation of prominent business people as role models and practice at starting a business. It has successfully expanded to several other countries, including Timor-Leste, Rwanda, Angola and Tanzania, as well Mozambique. Between 2006 and 2009 courses were delivered to a total of 1,397 schools, reaching out to more than 416,000 pupils.

innovative social and environmental entrepreneurs

In a move which demonstrates UNIDO’s commitment to including women’s empowerment fully in its promotion of inclusive and sustainable industrial development, the Organization joined up with UN Women to sponsor the 2013 SEED Gender Equality Award, supported by international law firm, Hogan Lowells. The SEED Awards is an annual scheme designed to find the most promising and innovative social and environmental entrepreneurs. Following from this, the SEED Gender Equality Award, which includes finance and broader support services, will be made to two women-run enterprises which prioritise gender equality and/or women’s empowerment.

public-private partnership schemes

Another area drawing more attention as a means to promote women’s empowerment in business is that of public-private partnership schemes. UNIDO sees private-sector involvement as vital to global efforts to promote inclusive and sustainable growth. Examples of such partnerships include the UNIDO’s Entrepreneurship Curriculum Programme, which received $1 million from Chevron towards a project to introduce entrepreneurship as a subject to over 10,000 students in Angola.Other examples are the Business Growth Centres in Pakistan set up by UNIDO and First Women Bank Limited to enhance the ability, mobility, visibility and connectivity of women entrepreneurs.

partners in family unions

Policy frameworks should promote societal attitudes that are conducive to women’s entrepreneurship,such as ensuring that women are recognized as equal partners in family unions, and hence have equal ownership rights to joint assets. It is also clear that actions to strengthen social protection and promote social inclusion, including supportive family policies, such as maternity and paternity leave, flexible work schedules and availability of child care services, are crucial if women are to become successful in business.

SEEKING POLICES AND PARTNERSHIPS THAT
PROMOTE WOMEN’S ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT

There is no single recipe for success. Policymakers, international development organizations, investors, private corporations, and civil society organizations have deployed a variety of different instruments and methodologies to help women start up businesses. These range from entrepreneurial skills training, business development services and technical support, to capacity development and the provision of credit and investment funding, amongst others.Any policies that set out to help women
start their own businesses need to make more resources available to them. This could mean skills training in starting and managing businesses,loan schemes that are project- or idea-based rather than subject to ownership of assets as collateral, and technical assistance in addition to education to support the growth of women-led businesses.

Global Environment Facility

Partnering with the MESD, UNIDO is carrying out a Global Environment Facility funded project to supply clean,energy-efficient cookstoves to women. The Organization is over seeing the installation of 500 cookstoves in the Plateau-Central region of the country. The programme will also set up a credit line provided by a regional African bank to allow the dolotières to buy the cookstoves. In total, the project will reach 1,600 women targeted in four clusters. By bringing together groups of women,they will benefit from collective gains that should stimulate the growth of the sector and make it easier for them to access credit.The new cookstoves should also reduce the workload for women and girls and improve their safety by reducing their exposure to burning wood fumes. By expanding opportunities as well as access to sustainable energy, resources, training and credit, the project empowers women and enhances gender equality.

income for rural women

Locally produced millet beer,or dolo, has for generations been an important source of income for rural women in Burkina Faso, with thousands of home-based breweries spread across the country.The beer has traditionally been brewed by ‘dolotières’ using old-style cookstoves which eat up large amounts of firewood due to their low combustion rate. According to the Ministry of
Environment and Sustainable Development (MESD), firewood used in the brewing process accounts for 50% of total firewood consumption in the capital, Ouagadougou. This has clear environmental consequences and is also detrimental to the health of the women who breathe in harmful smoke while they work.

BREAKING DOWN THE BARRIERS

Businesses across the globe are nurtured and supported through complex interwoven structures reflected in laws and policies, cultural and societal norms and education and training systems. Men and women, however, are not on an even footing within these structures. For this to change women need equal access to credit to invest and expand their business ventures, equal access to markets to sell and develop their products, and equal opportunities to acquire skills, knowledge and technology. Ultimately, by treating women equally to men as potential entrepreneurs, they would be in a better position to contribute to economic growth and development.

poverty and promote female economic empowerment

Women’s creative ability has often gone unnoticed or underutilised.With the right support,craft industry can play a pivotal role in the economy. UNIDO's Women Entrepreneurship Development Programme, funded under the Joint UN Programme “Towards Gender Parity in Pakistan”,recognises that expanding employment and creating economic opportunities for women is one of the most effective ways to alleviate poverty and promote female economic empowerment.The Business Growth Centre, established by UNIDO, is aimed at enhancing the ability, mobility, visibility, and connectivity of women entrepreneurs.Gender equality is at the centre of the development process supported by the UN in Pakistan and hence the strategy focuses on finding ways to include women in the traditionally male-dominated sectors of
the economy.

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workshops for women

Setting up workshops for women in the four regions, UNIDO helped to improve social inclusion and equality of opportunity. Overall, providing support to traditional creative industries, which are a priority for Peru, has had tangible effects on women’s empowerment by putting decision-making in women’s hands and giving them the skills they need to grow their businesses.

supporting networks of women

Financing from the MDG Fund, UNIDO teamed up with five other UN agencies to help develop these creative industries by supporting networks of women and indigenous communities and by providing training on better manufacturing techniques and marketing. Over 65% of those participating in the initiative are women, who also run half of the small businesses across the four regions targeted. All producers received training in how to improve their products and were also helped to come up with new designs that took account of their cultural heritage.

isolated areas of the country

Despite the economic successes of the past decade, many women and indigenous peoples in the more isolated areas of the country, such as Puno, Ayacucho, Cusco and Lambayeque, still rely on small-scale traditional handicrafts to make a living. Limited resources, poor infrastructure and a lack of training prevent them from developing these businesses.

women's education development

38 % of computer training and English-class participants are women, with several women enrolling in technical training also. Graduates are assisted in finding jobs and internships, often gaining training from Scania and other local companies. Economic development has improved in the region while traditional and discriminatory attitudes and beliefs about women’s capabilities are being challenged.

education and vocational training

Unemployment remains a serious issue for Iraqis, but for young women the problem is especially acute, with only 10% of 15- to 29-year-old'

s in formal employment. Traditional socio-cultural factors and limited infrastructure impede women’s participation in education and vocational training. As a result, Iraqi women are often socially and economically excluded from household decision-making and from community or political participation.

women influenced by traditional and internal factors

Cultural values can also hold women back. A UNIDO-led study on barriers to women’s entrepreneurship found that women were influenced more by traditional and internal factors than by legal or regulatory barriers when starting their business.Similarly, there are many countries where entrepreneurship is seen as an in appropriate career choice for women. In societies with rigid views of traditionally male and female roles,frequently reinforced by cultural and religious beliefs, women’s opportunities for engaging in paid work or starting up enterprises are often limited. At the same time, perceptions of family responsibility pose a challenge, with patriarchal attitudes restricting women’s responsibilities to domestic and family work, and thus preventing them from acting independently.

women’s economic opportunities

Both women and men face challenges in setting up their own businesses, but for women the barriers are often greater and harder to overcome. They are often confronted with a lack of government support in terms of policy, laws, and services, and in some countries have only limited access to formal bank

accounts, which prevents them from accessing loans or credit.In some regions of the world, women have fewer inheritance rights than men, and in many countries there are legal distinctions between women and men that limit women’s economic opportunities.The fact that many women receive limited education, skills training or career guidance only compounds these difficulties, and the lack of technological know-how or access to modern, affordable technology further stops women from reaching their full potential.

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Economic life

Empowering women is increasing recognition that women entrepreneurs are the new engines for inclusive and sustainable industrial growth, and are the rising stars of economies in developing countries.The World Economic Forum identified women entrepreneurs as “the way forward”.Despite this, women entrepreneurs still struggle to take their rightful place in economic life. Even though more and more women are starting businesses globally, they still manage fewer businesses than men, and run businesses that are in less profitable sectors, that grow more slowly and are ultimately more likely to fail.

ecological footprint than men

Women tend to have a smaller ecological footprint than men. Their production and consumption patterns are often more resource-efficient, they are more likely to recycle and they make more sustainable decisions for their households and businesses. Therefore, their increased role in economic
decision-making has positive effects on sustainable economic development.

Education for the children

The impact of women's economic empowerment goes beyond this. Research has shown that women are more likely than men to invest a large proportion of their household income in the education and well-being of their children. When women are empowered to make an income, accumulate assets and increase their economic security, they improve industrial capacity and spur economic growth by creating new jobs, as well as expanding the pool of human resources and talents available in a country.

men and women become more equal

It is becoming increasingly clear that women are, and will continue to be, powerful drivers of development. When men and women become more equal, economies grow faster, fewer people remain in poverty, and overall well-being increases.Studies have reported that raising female employment to male
levels can have a direct impact on GDP growth rates, increasing it by as much as 34% in some countries and that countries’productivity can increase by as much as 25 % if discriminatory barriers against women are removed.

industrial development

Industrial Development

With the world economy still struggling to recover from the economic shocks of the past few years,momentum is growing for a new industrial revolution that is both sustainable and inclusive.This means supporting growth with in the constraints of the planet’s limited resources and putting people at the heart of development.Central to inclusive and sustainable industrial development is the urgent need to harness the economic potential of women half of the world’s population. It is estimated that by 2020, 870 million women who have been living or contributing at a subsistence level will enter the economic mainstream for the first time as producers, consumers, employees and entrepreneurs.The economic impact is expected to be staggering, with profound effects on global development as a whole.

women entrepreneurs

Population in India

Women make the second largest target group for identification of potential entrepreneurs being slightly less than 50% of the total population. In India there are 99.4 million women workers in a labour force of 272.84 million. Majority of the women seek work, out of economic necessity, but of these a large number a

re creative and utilise their time gainfully; and pursuing a hobby.

Friday 27 January 2017

economically independent for Indian women's

Women Entrepreneur is a person who accepts challenging role to meet her personal needs and become economically independent. The Government of India has defined women entrepreneurs as an enterprise owned and controlled by women having a minimum financial interest of 51 per cent of the capital and giving at least 51 per cent of the employment generated in the enterprise to women. In the simplest sense, women entrepreneurs are those women who take the lead and organize the business or industry and provide employment to others. Entrepreneurship development among rural women helps to enhance their personal capabilities and increase decision making status in the family and society as a whole.

Nations Development programm

Nations Development programm empowerment is a process which enables individuals or groups to change balances of power in social, economic and political relations in society.Women empowerment means giving the capacity and means to direct women's life towards desired goals. It is a process by which women gain greater control over resources,decision making process, enhance the self-image of women, to become active participants in the process of change and to develop the skills to assert themselves.

social and economic life of rural womens

Participation in income generating activities helps in the overall empowerment of women.The SHGs had major impact on social and economic life of rural women.It empowers women and trains them to take active part in the socio-economic progress of the nation and make them sensitized, self-made and self-disciplined.Stated that SHGs are continuously striving for a better future for rural women as participants, decision-makers and beneficiaries in the domestic, economic, social and cultural spheres of life.

succeed to rural women's

The SHGs have inculcated great confidence in the minds of rural women to succeed in their day-to-day life. The SHGs bring out the capacity of women in molding the community in right perspective and explore the initiative of women in taking the entrepreneurial ventures.