Abstract
Despite significant work-family conflicts, women entrepreneurs changed the roles of householders, improved family income and well-being, and sparked change in the society. Social capital and targeted policies (finance, childcare, training, legal reform, and internet access) increase multiplier effects and decrease trade-offs. Qualitative and relational research demonstrate that women’s entrepreneurship frequently arises from and then reshapes intimate household relations. These businesses begin as responses to care, resource shifts, or family demands, and then subsequently reorganise household responsibilities and decision-making. Both conflicting and supporting family roles influence firm trajectories and household results, according to empirical research conducted in a variety of contexts. Women’s entrepreneurship boosts household consumption, savings, health and education investments, and general welfare in both developing and mixed countries. Several studies associate entrepreneurial income with better family well-being and a decrease in poverty. When institutional restrictions are removed, conceptual work presents these benefits as a multiplier effect that spreads beyond the female entrepreneur to larger household and community growth. Work-life conflicts are a chronic hindrance: Family obligations lower company productivity and health and wellness issues for female entrepreneurs, with disproportionately impacted demographic groups. Bonding/bridging social capital, supportive family arrangements, digital tools, and tailored legislation are examples of buffers and remedies that empirical research identifies to reduce the negative effects and enhance firm and family results. There is growing evidence that children of women entrepreneurs face both disruptions to family routines and valuable role modelling that shapes their aspirations, skills, and perceptions of future careers. Empirical cross-national work reveals that mothers are viewed as role models, even though many of their children do not pursue entrepreneurship directly. By increasing household investment in health and education and normalising women’s economic leadership, policy measures that support women-owned businesses (loans, training, childcare, gender equality laws, and digital access) increase the favourable intergenerational impacts.

DIP: 18.02.S14/20251004
DOI: 10.25215/2455/1004S14