Women entrepreneurship: a pathway to women empowerment and economic independence

Rural Women Empowerment and Entrepreneurship Development

Empowerment of women has emerged as an important issue in recent times. The economic empowerment of women is being regarded these days as a Sine-quo-non of progress for a country; hence, the issue of economic empowerment of women is of paramount importance to political thinkers, social scientists and reformers. The Self Help Groups (SHGs) have paved the way for economic independence of rural wo...

Economic Empowerment of Women

Women Empowerment and Economic Development

T persistence of gender inequality is most starkly brought home in the phenomenon of “missing women.” The term was coined by Amartya Sen in a now classic article in the New York Review of Books (Sen 1990) to capture the fact that the proportion of women is lower than what would be expected if girls and women throughout the developing world were born and died at the same rate, relative to boys a...

Kudumbashree as a Catalyst for Entrepreneurship Development & Economic Empowerment of Rural Women through Self Help Groups

The empowerment of women in economic, social and political settings has become one of the most important concerns of modern and elite world of 21 st century. The organizations of Self Help Groups (SHGs) constitute a widely accepted development strategy for entrepreneurship development, women empowerment and poverty alleviation. The present paper focuses on the role of Kudumbashree (KDMS) in wom...

Relationship Between Entrepreneurship and Empowerment Dimensions of Rural Women in Fars Province

In the conceptual frame of rural  and agricultural development, the emphasis on improving the quality and empowerment of rural women and advancement of their working conditions in rural communities is what needs to be carefully stressed. Entrepreneurship development and empowerment are in complementary touch with each other and lead to strengthening women in various entrepreneurial activities i...