Perceived Barriers in Undertaking Entrepreneurship as Career Options Among Educated Unemployed Women in Manipur

Manipur, one of the eight sisters of the North Eastern Region of India, is an isolated hill-girt state stretching between longitudes 93.03o E and 94.78o E and latitudes 23.80o N and 25.68oN. Within the society of Manipur, based on the model of questionnaire were distributed to 200 students of Ideal Girls College, Akampat, Imphal East, Shree ShreeGourgovinda Girls College, Imphal East, The Ghanapriya Women’s College, Imphal and South Asian Institute of Rural and Agricultural Management, LangjingAchouba, Imphal West in Manipur. The present study was carried out with the specific objective to assest the perceived barriers in undertaking entrepreneurship as career options among educated unemployed women in Manipur. Data have revealed that most relevant result to be considered is the confirmation that female students’ have a positive perceptiontowards gender equality and can lead them to development towards entrepreneurship amongthe educated women leading to empowerment. The socio-personal trait had a much greater influence towards entrepreneurship interest which is backed up by the socio-economic trait of the students. The data is also supported by the socio-psychological traits which could determine the mentality of the student who are keen to pursue entrepreneurship as a career option. Thus, all the variables show a positive and significant correlation on the factors of entrepreneurial interest among the studentswhere the maximum graduates were sometimes relying on the perceived behaviours in understanding entrepreneurship as a career option.