Women Entrepreneurship and Empowerment

This book deals with various aspects of women entrepreneurship and empowerment in detail. The book elaborates the qualities of entrepreneur and steps need to be taken to promote women entrepreneurship. It also focuses on challenges for women to become entrepreneur, especially in Indian situation. It recommends certain strategies to promote women entrepreneurship. It elaborates on the concept of micro-finance and how it has been implemented in India through Self Help Groups. The book includes various steps taken by the government to promote women entrepreneurship. It explains the concept of empowerment of women, aspects of women empowerment, process of empowerment, needs for empowerment, and barriers in it. It also suggests various ways to be adopted for empowerment, to meet challenges in bringing empowerment, and various efforts taken by government to empower women. To make the concepts of micro-finance and empowerment clearer, the author has given in-depth case study of Korea Mahila Gruha Udhyog, Chhattisgarh, India. It explicitly gives information on the genesis of Korea Mahila Gruha Udhyog (KMGU), its various products and challenges faced by the women in the initial phase.

Autorentext

ASHA RAMAGONDA PATIL, Ph.D. Associate Professor, SNDT Women's University, Mumbai India, since 1986. involved in teaching, research and extension work. A member of Maharashtra State Government's Committee for selection of Books for Neo-literates, evaluation of commissioned reports Government of India, published several books, guided several student