Socio Economic Factors Affecting the Development of Women Entrepreneurs in Bangladesh: A Study in Feni District

Women's participation in the economic sphere is increasing day by day. This study was conducted to assess socio economic factors that affect the development of women entrepreneurs in Feni district. This study is descriptive in nature and the data used in this paper is mainly primarily but to some extent secondary types of data was incorporated. In execute this research 100 respondents were taken using simple random sampling. The collected data was analyzed by using both descriptive and analytical procedure. After data was coded and organized, statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) software was to analyze and further cleaning. Data analysis resulted using regression coefficient showed that economic and technological factors had positive impact upon women entrepreneurs in Feni district than other social and cultural factors. Hence it is recommended that government and other financial institutions should work with NGOs to strengthen women socio economic development through imparting skill training business oriented information and advising services.