ÉTAT DES LIEUX SUR L’ENTREPRENEURIAT FÉMININ DANS LA WILAYA DE DJELFA

Abstract

In Algeria, women's entrepreneurship is low despite the proactive policy of the State to boost female employment, which happens to be the lowest in the Maghreb. Only 5% of entrepreneurs are women . In the province of Djelfa, where our research, this rate is only 0.6%. The investigation in this wilaya reveals that only 8% of the projects
granted by public support structures for entrepreneurship (ANSEJ, CNAC, ANDI) were to women. We have only the agency for micro credit (ANGEM) that women are the majority (76.7% of the projects funded by this institution). In addition to the weakness in the numbers, women are mainly directed towards traditionally female sectors prolonging a knowledge already gained in the domestic sphere. Finally, women entrepreneurs surveyed say they have difficulty marketing their production to obtain bank loans and finding locul professionals at an affordable price. Last but not least, they repoil difficulties in combining domestic activities and management of tin-