新作坊 Humanity Innovation and Social Practice

Women Empowerment through Micro Entrepreneurship"- A sociological Review

摘要：

Empowerment involves both the individual change and collective action. For an empowerment approach the development to be successfully implemented, changes are needed in the abilities of individuals and groups to identify and meet their own need in the households, communities, organisations, institutions and society. Empowerment enables woman to control their own lives and to set their own to organise, to help each other and to make demand on the state and on society itself for change. With the collective empowerment of women, of course, would bring with it the individual empowerment of women. While studying empowerment it is also essential to locate individuals within the historical, social and political contacts of their social group to correctly interpret the impact of development outcomes. Here an attempt has been made to analyse the micro entrepreneurship and empowerment of women. This paper on women empowerment through entrepreneurship the data was collected among 398 SHGs members in surrounding villages of Cuddalore District of Tamil Nadu and the results also shows the positive signs on women empowerment through entrepreneurship. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]