Women's Participation in the System of Small Entrepreneurship Management in the Countries with Transitional Economy (Ludmila Shukailo)

Раздел - "Международные экономические отношения"Women are the owners of nearly 25 % of n ew enterprises in the countries with transitional economy. As a result, there appeared a n ew non-standard approach towards running business. Though businesswomen have much in common with businessmen, they also have a different view of the economic situation and they run their business using non-traditional approaches and methods. The world witnesses the trend towards the growth of small businesses with few employees and not very high profits, headed by women, since they are interested mostly in the stability and legitimacy of the income against its volume. The very fact of women's participation in business increases their chances to influence the authorities with the aim to provide many more decisions in economic and social spheres with regard to their interests. However, some problems arise when businesswomen create good ideas which could b e realized in practice, but they lack experience, professional training, capital and influential connections in other organizations. Therefore, governments and international organizations in the countries with transitional economies try to assist women entrepreneurs, involving the experience of industrially advanced countries. The basis for these activities is laid b y a range of recommendations offered by the U N Commission on the Status of Women. The given recommendations fully correspond to the situation in the sphere of women's entrepreneurship in the countries with transitional economy. Some of them have already found their practical use, others require additional conditions. Women's participation in the economic life of the society at the decision-making level should become a rule in the countries that choose the way of democratic development