Practice and challenges of women enterprise decision making in arba minch city administration

This study was aimed at assessing the practice and challenges of the performance of women involved in facility enterprises. The study aimed to identify the main opportunities available to women entrepreneurs for achieving their goals. Accordingly, they identified lack of workplace, shortage of working capital, shortage of training, lack of credit facility, burden of double responsibility and absence of husband support, and poor education background as major challenges that constrained the performance of women entrepreneurs. The various institutions providing support to women, together with the current constitution, are considered as opportunities for women entrepreneurs in the study area. The study utilized descriptive cross-sectional statistics to analyze quantitative data and content analysis to compute qualitative data. The study recommended various points to address the challenges and to take advantage of the different opportunities available for improving the performance of women entrepreneurs.