Women Entrepreneurship in the Indian Middle Class:

`Entrepreneurship can result from necessity as well as opportunity, and women entrepreneurs pursue goals beyond economic gains.¿ `There is no gender differential in drivers of business expansion. The small scale of business does not inhibit women-owned micro enterprises from expanding.¿ In Women Entrepreneurship in the Indian Middle Class, Unni, Yadav, Naik and Dutta explore entrepreneurship using a gender and class lens from multidisciplinary perspectives. They examine the evolution of the field and uncover factors impacting women''s participation in entrepreneurship. Defining entrepreneurship broadly to include not just `new economic activity¿ but operations of all economic enterprises, the authors attempt to understand: What motivates women in India to operate enterprises ranging from small and medium to large enterprises?