Indian Women as Entrepreneurs An Exploration of Self-Identity
This unique edited collection explores the ways in which entrepreneurship acts to shape self-identity for Indian women and validate their identities in a patriarchal society. Differing from existing literature which focuses on the antecedents of entrepren
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INDIAN WOMEN AS ENTREPRENEURS An Exploration of Self-Identity
Indian Women as Entrepreneurs
Payal Kumar Editor
Indian Women as Entrepreneurs An Exploration of Self Identity
Editor Payal Kumar New Delhi, India
ISBN 978-1-137-60258-9 ISBN 978-1-137-60259-6 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-60259-6
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I dedicate this book to one of the contributors, my dear friend Prathibha Sastry, And to other women like her, Who have the courage and indomitable spirit To transform adversity into opportunity Again and again, and yet again.
Foreword
Entrepreneurship is a gender issue. Risk-taking, the essence of entrepreneurship, is commonly understood to be a male characteristic, the type of behaviour that leads men to leave home and family and strike out to succeed in an often-hostile world. Women, conversely, are by definition those who are rooted in that left-behind home and family and responsible for making the best of a weak position. But as the contributors to this volume demonstrate, that common trope is at best a misunderstanding and at worst an unconscious and yet pervasive attempt to misrepresent women’s reality and restrict their potential. That even in the highly gender-differentiated economic environment of India, women’s regular success as entrepreneurs requires a careful re-examination of the nature of entrepreneurship, the conventions of gender that lie behind it, and the outcomes that emerge from it. The entrepreneur is one who applies a range of resources in an uncertain situation in the belief a
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