| Women entrepreneurship in SMEs,justifying large proportion of total entrepreneurs in Zanzibar.There is a lack of studies with specific objectives on problems and risk faced by women entrepreneurs related to the challenges in economic,social,cultural,legal/political and technological.Hence this study is intended to fill the research gaps by distinctive specifying factors that cause women entrepreneurs' failure in running SMEs.The purpose of this study is to assess the previous literature regarding the barriers to women entrepreneurship and to find the factors that act as major barriers in setting up their enterprise.The scope of the study deals with women entrepreneurs in Zanzibar,Tanzania who were categorized in a different production of goods and services.The 288 respondent's results from nine entrepreneurship sectors were collected through questionnaires and interviews,and data recorded were analyzed using different statistical methods;descriptive analysis,correlation analysis and regression analysis(ANOVA)through IBM SPSS software.A total of four hypothesis were formulated to show the relation between independent variables(social,economic,political/legal and technological factor)and the dependent variable(failure of women entrepreneur in SMEs).The findings show that around 60%of women engaged in entrepreneurs are married with less than 5 family members with age range 21 to 40 years.Most of them have a maximum of five years working experience dominated in retail trade,food industry,and agriculture.Four hypotheses introduced in this study,and three of them supported.Moreover using descriptive analysis ranked all four factor with social as the most influential on women entrepreneur,followed by an economic and technological factor.While political/legal is less influential compared with another factor. |
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