Women entrepreneurs create 5.9 pc of jobs
Says study
Women entrepreneurs have created only 5.9 percent of jobs for women, a study revealed yesterday.
The study explored a series of impediments to women entrepreneurship, including people's unwillingness to see women in business, difficulty in getting cash payment from wholesalers, illiteracy, lack of business knowledge and eve-teasing.
Micro Industries Development Assistance and Service (MIDAS) conducted the study with the help of Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Foundation.
The organisers arranged a seminar at the CIRDAP auditorium in Dhaka to reveal the findings of the study.
The study covered 1,035 women entrepreneurs in 50 upazilas of 34 districts in the country.
Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, state minister for women and children affairs, who attended the seminar as chief guest, said these research findings would help the government exert its efforts in the right direction for women's development.
The study says women entrepreneurs have less access to training and information technology and only 17.1 percent of the entrepreneurs use computers.
The percentage of women who received training before stepping into business is 53.7 percent and around 36 percent of the entrepreneurs invested between Tk 10,000 and Tk 50,000, according to the study.
Aftab ul Islam, SME Foundation chairman, and Abdul Karim, Midas managing director, also spoke on the occasion.
The study recommended that women entrepreneurs should be assisted to organise SME trade fairs in South Asia.
"Training programmes should be undertaken with SME organisations in the Saarc region for the development of entrepreneurship among women."
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