Women Empowerment Through Women Entrepreneurship: A Comparison Between Women Entrepreneurs and Fulltime Housewife in Pakistan

Shaista Noor, F. Isa, LeilaneMohd Nor
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Women's empowerment is related to women's decision-making power, easy access to information, and resource control. Women entrepreneurship is in the initial stage in Pakistan. The present study primarily focused on the challenge of women empowerment through entrepreneurship in Pakistan. A structured questionnaire was used to collect data through the survey method. The target population of the study was 120 women of the main cities of Pakistan. The target population was divided into two categories (housewife/ entrepreneur cum housewife). The results highlight that entrepreneurship played a significant role and increased the decision-making power of women entrepreneurs as compared to the housewife. However, women entrepreneurs are facing various obstacles such as less governmental support, complicated bank loan procedures, lack of entrepreneurial education, and market awareness. The governmental support in place of smooth and easily accessible bank loans for women requires enhancing their confidence and control over resources similar to the men. The result highlights that women entrepreneurs have strong decision-making power, fewer mobility issues, autonomy, financial independence, and empowerment. This study will help policymakers to formulate strategies to overcome the obstacles of women entrepreneurship to attain empowerment through entrepreneurship. A women empowerment model is proposed to be followed.
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赋予妇女权力与妇女的决策权、获取信息的便利性和资源控制有关。妇女创业在巴基斯坦处于初级阶段。本研究主要侧重于巴基斯坦通过创业增强妇女权能的挑战。采用结构化问卷调查的方法收集数据。这项研究的目标人群是巴基斯坦主要城市的120名妇女。目标人群分为两类(家庭主妇/企业家兼家庭主妇)。研究结果强调,与家庭主妇相比,创业发挥了重要作用,提高了女企业家的决策权。然而,女企业家面临着各种障碍,如政府支持较少、银行贷款程序复杂、缺乏创业教育和市场意识。政府要支持妇女顺利、方便地获得银行贷款,就需要增强她们对类似于男子的资源的信心和控制力。这一结果突出表明,女企业家拥有强大的决策权、较少的流动性问题、自主权、财务独立和赋权。这项研究将帮助决策者制定战略,克服妇女创业的障碍,通过创业获得赋权。建议采用赋予妇女权力的模式。
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