The digital economy presents emerging opportunities for entrepreneurial sector growth alongside greater financial inclusion and innovation. Digital platforms and the associated lowering of barriers and enhanced market reach for women stands to benefit women entrepreneurs. Still, women entrepreneurs may face other challenges like less funding access, low digital skills, and gender norms that limit entrepreneurial activity. This research will look into women in the digital economy to find major challenges and analyze current women entrepreneurship policies and programs. The study will use the mixed methods approach with women entrepreneurship success stories as cases to collect evidence-based recommendations for gender-responsive digital entrepreneurship. It will analyze women’s engagement in digital entrepreneurship in the context of the Empowered India vision and the economy’s digital growth. The results will pave the way for business leaders and policy and education reform to enable women’s engagement in the digital economy through sustainable entrepreneurship.
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