Challenges for Women Entrepreneurs according to the Report

› • Access to finance impacts nearly every entrepreneur across segments, but it manifests in the form of disparity in the investor ecosystem for the scalers, and lack of information and absence of tailored products for rural and urban solopreneurs.

• Scalers are disadvantaged due to exlusion from networks, especially informal ones, but for urban solopreneurs, it is about not having had the opportunity to create a network of any sort.

› • Rural agripreneurs is a distinct segment, which is here to stay, and can be a critical catalyst of the modernisation of agriculture.

• Access all segments, woman face cultural constraints that continue to stall advancement. These manifest in the form of denial of the social permission to work and for those that work, gender biases and expectations that persists widely.