DEVELOPING WOMEN ENTREPRENEURIAL LEADERSHIP: 'FROM VISION TO PRACTICE

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SAIRA MAQBOOL, QAISARA PARVEEN, MUHAMMAD ARSHAD DAHAR

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Improving females' involvement in management and enterprises in Pakistan requires the development of female entrepreneurs as leaders. Entrepreneurial education aims for providing students ,the knowledge, aptitudes and motivation to energize innovative accomplishment in various settings. Assortments of venture instruction are advertised at all stages of mentoring, from fundamental or discretionary institutes through graduate institutional platforms. The business enterprise will be considered the procedure by which a looming business visionary or business person pursues after openings without respect to the resources they directly regulate. This entails the ability of the business visionary to join every single other generation. This study explores the relationship between developing Women's Leadership skills and Entrepreneurship Education   The essential reason for this consider was to analyze the role of Entrepreneurship Edification (EE) towards women's Leadership and develop entrepreneurial intentions among students. The major goal of this study was to foster entrepreneurial attitudes among PMAS Arid Agriculture University undergraduate students concerning their choice to work for themselves. This study focuses on the motivation and interest of female students in the social sciences to build entrepreneurial leadership skills. The quantitative analysis used a true-experimental, pretest-posttest control group research design. Female undergraduate students from PMAS Arid Agriculture University made up the study population. For entrepreneurial activity, a training module has been created. The students underwent a three-week training program at PMAS Arid Agriculture University, where they learned about entrepreneurial leadership abilities. The quantitative data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and T-tests. The findings indicated that students acquired entrepreneurial leadership skills and intentions after training. They have decided to launch their businesses as leaders. It is advised that other PMAS Arid Agriculture University departments use the training module and course outline because the research's usage of them has important results.

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SAIRA MAQBOOL, QAISARA PARVEEN, MUHAMMAD ARSHAD DAHAR

  1. SAIRA MAQBOOL1, DR. QAISARA PARVEEN2, DR. MUHAMMAD ARSHAD DAHAR3

1PhD. Scholar, 2Associate Professor & 3Assistant Professor

Department of Education, Pir Mehar Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University-Rawalpindi (Pakistan) 1,2&3

Corresponding author: Dr. Qaisara Parveen ,

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