Responsibility for Women's Home and Family

Responsibility for Women's Home and Family

One factor that distinguishes women entrepreneurs from their male counterparts is the double burden of responsibility assumed by women. Traditionally,women in all cultures have a primary responsibility toward the home and family.Even in Western Europe,only unmarried women were expected to participate in the labor market.As previously mentioned,self-employment was, and still is,often regarded as a way to achieve work-life balance. While that may be a noble reason for choosing self-employment, the woman may find that as the business progresses, she has to make the difficult choice of “either saying no to new business opportunities that arise a move that might threaten the existence of that business or committing herself to these new business tasks,which in the end might mean that she would have to hire someone to take over more personal commitments.