Hossein Vazifedoust ¹, Mehdi Behboudi ², Fademeh Sadr ³, Fahimeh Ahadi ³

Affiliations
1 Department of business Management, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, IR
2 Department of Business Management, School of Management and Accountancy, Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, IR
3 Department of Business Management, School of Management and Accountancy, Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, IR

Abstract

Like the other parts of the world, trends show that the women are launching new entrepreneurial ventures in Iran. With the growth of women population, specially the educated ones (49% of Iran population), the necessity of women entrepreneurship development has attracted the attention. Because, of the increasing women unemployment rate, this paper is to recognize the challenges facing women entrepreneurship and ask them the cause (s) of it. Through searching the past studies, in this study, it is tried to provide a definition for entrepreneurship and put an emphasis on its development and the challenges facing women entrepreneurship. The unique features of this paper include using various researches and mostly local cases in the country.

Keywords

Women Entrepreneurship, Challenges Facing Women Entrepreneurship

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