Women Empowerment and Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship has been indispensable factor contributing for development of many countries. It is dearth of entrepreneurship, which has been foremost factor for backwardness of developing countries. Entrepreneurship has potential not only to increase the rate of growth but also solve many social, political problems and improve standard of living. India also suffers from many such problems: like low growth rate, unemployment regional imbalances, illiteracy, worsening social economic condition of women. Women constitutes almost 50% of total population of India. They suffer on various accounts socially, economically and politically. Entrepreneurship can become a powerful instrument to improve the condition of women. The paper attempts to analyze Entrepreneurship as an instrument of economic empowerment of women. The main objective is to understand concept of Entrepreneurship relevant to the issue, economic empowerment through Entrepreneurship, problems and impediments in women Entrepreneurship and measures to remove them, role of government in empowerment of women, policy suggestions for the development of women entrepreneurship.