Here - Start-up Kashmir!
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recent study conducted by the Centre for Women Studies in <strong>Kashmir</strong> estimated that women-run<br />
businesses constitute less than 5% of all businesses in the formal sector in <strong>Kashmir</strong><br />
and, in a survey of <strong>Kashmir</strong>i women entrepreneurs, found that 78% of respondents felt that<br />
gender inequalities pose a major problem in women entrepreneurship in <strong>Kashmir</strong>. 6 The<br />
same study found that social acceptance was a major challenge for women entrepreneurs.<br />
One <strong>Kashmir</strong>i businesswoman we spoke to describe this challenge: “If females do not pursue<br />
government work, medicine, or engineering, they feel pressed to fall into the genderstereotyped<br />
jobs such as teachers . . . . women are not accepted in men dominant work, they<br />
face gender inequalities at every step of the entrepreneurial process starting from social<br />
acceptance to the final stage of venture formation”. Another <strong>Kashmir</strong>i woman entrepreneur<br />
we spoke to explained her challenges: “Women as entrepreneurs are not even taken seriously,<br />
neither by society nor by the financial institutions that have to fund them...”<br />
6 Shazia Sadaf, Women entreprenership in <strong>Kashmir</strong>” women Studies Centre, <strong>Kashmir</strong>, March 2011<br />
Youth Entrepreneurship in <strong>Kashmir</strong>: Challenges and Opportunities
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