ACHIEVING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT THROUGH ENTREPRENEURSHIP & ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN IN THE TECHNOLOGICAL ERA

In recent years, the rise of women entrepreneurs and their participation in the growth of the national economy is crucial for a developing country like Bangladesh. Women have now started to contribute to the economic growth by their distinctive jobs. They have altered their typical roles of housewives into a substantial business figure having enough ability and enthusiasm to run a business alone and to face any of its threats in order to make a profit out of it. The growing ICT environment is offering new opportunities for women entrepreneurs to expand their businesses and become more effective. Purpose of this study is to seek the motivational factors that encourage women to become entrepreneurs and to explore how their entrepreneurial activity can contribute to the SDGs. The study has been conducted by using convenience sampling technique on 203 women entrepreneurs of different districts of Bangladesh. Through factor analysis, the study has found several factors that lead women to be entrepreneurs and the major challenges faced by them in Bangladesh. The paper provides better insight about how women entrepreneurship and economic empowerment of women are contributing significantly to achieve SDGs