Socio- economic status of women entrepreneurs in Assam with special reference to Kamrup District

When a woman or a group of women start, organize and operate a business enterprise they are known as women entrepreneur(s). Government of India (2003–04) defines women entrepreneurs as those entrepreneurs who own and control an enterprise having a minimum financial interest of 51 per cent of the capital and provides at least 51 per cent of employment generated in the enterprise to women. They initiate the business, undertake the risk, and control and administer all the respective events concerning the business. The socio economic characteristics such as age, education, family size and annual average income were significantly correlated with the extent of entrepreneurial behaviour of women entrepreneurs (Ram & Chaudhury, 2012). In this study, we tried to access the socio economic characteristics of women entrepreneurs in the study area. It was observed that majority of them were of the age group of 40–50 years, married, belonged to general caste, graduate and having diploma in respective businesses.