Identification of Barriers to Entrepreneurship of Female Household Heads Covered by Tehran Welfare Organization

Abstract

One of the important tasks of social helpers is empowerment of vulnerable groups. One of these vulnerable groups is female
household heads. One of the practices that can help empowering of them is to encourage female household heads to financial
independence. Entrepreneurship is something that can lead to financial independence of female household heads. Moreover, entrepreneurship can lead to better mental and social health of this vulnerable group. The first step in empowering female household
heads through entrepreneurship is to identify their obstacles and entrepreneurship problems. Because by identification of these
barriers it can be done more appropriate measures in order to empower them.
So, the aim of the present study is to identify entrepreneurship barriers of female household heads covered by Welfare Organization
in Tehran. The method of the current study is survey