International Journal of Research in Social Sciences

  • Year: 2017
  • Volume: 7
  • Issue: 12

Women empowerment through entrepreneurship: A case study of Kamrup district in Assam

  • Author:
  • Alaka Hujuri
  • Total Page Count: 21
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 404 to 424

Assistant Professsor, Department of Economics, B. P. Chaliha College, Kamrup, Assam, India

Online published on 20 June, 2019.

Abstract

The present study is a humble attempt to know how women entrepreneurs take major household decisions in association with their husbands and parents. Besides, the study explores whether entrepreneurship along with other factors had any impact on women in empowering them. The study reveals that entrepreneurship has been instrumental in enhancing not only their economic status in the society but also their decision making power. Women are becoming more personally and economically empowered and participating freely in the society due to entrepreneurship.

Keywords

Women empowerment, Women entrepreneurship, Gender equality, Women Empowerment Index