(due to the joint family system tha

(due to the joint family system that is
prevalent). Also, besides their
parental and spousal roles, women in
these nations have several other roles
to play (e.g., daughter, sister, and inlaw)
and these may also take up considerable
amounts of their time and
effort. For example, Naik (1992)
found that Indian women managers
spent a considerable amount of their
time on these social role demands.
Results and Discussion
As can be seen from Table 1, the
majority of the women entrepreneurs
studied were operating their businesses
as private limited companies
that were 100% owned by themselves.
Only a third were partnerships-
with the spouse (31%) or a
family member (44%) being the most
common partners. The women were
mostly young with nearly 70% being
under 44 years of age. Over 90% were
married with most being married
over 10 years. They were fairly well
educated with over 50% holding a
university degree. Very few (34%)
had previous experience of any type
before they started their own business.
Most of the women were in
manufacturing sector with most
being involved in the manufactur