With the changing times, the modern professionally qualified Indian women have stepped into a new genre of career and that’s entrepreneurship. Giving a damn to the social backlash that differentiate between genders and thwart the free will of women, these women are asserting their rights and proving excellently their skills in managing their professional sphere. Today we get to read the success stories of many businesses in our country that are led by women entrepreneurs and these very successful women have proved the common Indian society-bred fallacy that women don’t have the brains to run businesses completely wrong.
Businesses led by women are scaling new heights in our country and over the last few years our country has really witnessed some flourishing women-driven businesses that have made landmark achievements.
But if you keep an eye on business news or trends, you’ll notice that not all the cities of our country have successful women entrepreneurs. To put it the other way round, women entrepreneurs have not been able to ground the base of their business successfully in all the cities of India. Why is it so?
Which Indian cities have the highest number of women entrepreneurs & why?
Let’s first see which cities that have the highest number of women entrepreneurs. Cities like Bangalore, Bombay, Coimbatore, Pune, Delhi, Chennai and Hyderabad have the highest number of women entrepreneurs as per records. These cities are mostly metro-cities that have an urban, most importantly, progressive lifestyle.
Here women have been brought in a high-profile setting since their very childhood, where they were free to do whatever they liked. There was a milieu of gender equality in the type of culture that prevails in these cities and thus women could freely assert their right to practice whatever profession they wished and prove to the world their mettle in the field entrepreneurship, which for long was thought of purely as a man’s professional domain.
Which Indian cities have the least number of women entrepreneurs & why?
Now there are also many cities in our country that have the least number of women entrepreneurs such as Kolkata, Lucknow, Jamshedpur, Guwahati, Bilaspur, Ahmadabad, Jaipur etc. This is because in these cities, women entrepreneurs don’t get the necessary backing from the society to start off their business and also do not get a good target audience for the initial capture of the market.
The key reason for this is that the commoners residing in these cities still have in their mind a deep rooted misogynism, which urges them to oppose women entrepreneurship. They are hard-core believers in the age-long myth that a woman can’t equal a man in entrepreneurial skills, and so they refuse to cooperate when female entrepreneurs try to set up businesses in their cities.
What is the critical difference between these cities?
The main critical difference between these cities is the difference is the social outlook towards women entrepreneurship. In case of the former lot, a very progressive and free setting encourages business women; while in case of the latter lot, a regressive social setting that derides women who take steps to empower themselves, discourages women entrepreneurship.
Does geography play any role in this?
In case of some of these cities, geography does have a role to play. You must have noticed that most of the cities listed here as bearing the minimum number of women entrepreneurs fall to the eastern and western part of India. These regions are marked by conservative societal structure; here people have not yet broken free from their cultural restrictions that could be called obsolete in the modern world. Also, these are mostly areas where poverty dominates in many sections of the society and dated thinking towards women prevails even in affluent families because of their caste and cultural beliefs. This could be one reason why many of the cities with least number of women entrepreneurs fall in these geographic locations.
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