A Study on the Importance of Skill Development: Women Entrepreneurs in India as a Catalyst to Women Empowerment

By : Rupam Jyoti Deka

Page No: 400-409

Abstract
During recent time, there has been an inflow of large number of women undertaking entrepreneurship as the new career opportunity in developing countries like India. This has benefitted largely to the growth of various women-empowerment programs and policies by Government, NGOs and other Banking and Non-Banking Financial Institutions (NBFIs). These has led to growth of independence and empowerment of women overcoming various constraints and barriers. However, to have a deeper understanding of these obstacles would, there need to be in-depth understanding of the participation and of women and girls from both rural and urban areas. It is important to study the relationship between the barriers and requirement for empowering the women entrepreurs in India. Ambitions, obstacles and opportunities need to be considered according to the different demographic profiles of the women entrepreneurs. For this, there is need for the development a detailed ‘micro’ level’ explanation of the issue.Training and Skill Development approach is essential for providing aid to the women entrepreneurs in non-traditional, high skill, male dominated business enterprises and also to empower the women to overcome the barriers.

Author :
Rupam Jyoti Deka : Assistant Professor, Bharati Vidyapeeth Institute of Management & Research, New Delhi