Barriers to Women Entrepreneurship: Zimbabwe's Experience-Pre and Post Independence Eras

Abstract

Female entrepreneurs have always been at the receiving end of life since time immemorial. Attempts by most women to venture into lucrative areas of business have been hampered by socioeconomic barriers, most of them ‘created and manufactured' by men, society and the colonial legacies both during the pre and post eras in Zimbabwe. The study focused on the barriers that have thwarted the growth and success of female owned enterprises. The major recommendation is that society's perception on women entrepreneurs needs to be re-engineered and renewed-to support in toto and remove social barriers that hinder entrepreneurship performance.