Asian Journal of Multidimensional Research (AJMR)

Women entrepreneur is a woman who sets a business unit, becomes leader of that and struggles for achieving success for economic independency The growth of women entrepreneurship in India especially in rural areas has become an important domain of Indian economy. Government initiatives are motivating more rural women to come forward to take entrepreneurship. In the course of self help group (SHG) operation, women are gradually motivated to set up small enterprises for their self employment and creating opportunities for others. Formation of group among poor women, generating small savings, taking loan from group fund and starting up small enterprises are the process through which women entrepreneurship development takes place. At the dawn of the present century, government has been giving thrust to bring out development of backward districts all over the country specially those districts which have low literacy among women and lower rate of employment opportunities. The present paper has highlighted the development of entrepreneurship among women in backward area like Jhargram of West Bengal based on the primary data. It has highlighted different aspects of entrepreneurship like trades, profitability of each trade and contribution of income from entrepreneurship to household income etc.