Economic Empowerment of Women in India

Entrepreneurship among women is an emerging recent phenomenon. It is the process of creating value by attracting together a unique package of resources to exploit an opportunity. Nowadays governments have identified the emerging features of micro enterprises as a new dimension and its results are more benefit to the economy. Micro credit programme will empower women by strengthening their economic roles, increasing their ability to contribute income to family and giving them experience and self-confidence in the public sphere, exposer to income earning activities. Women need credit for skill upgradation, training and entrepreneurial development. The impact of women empowerment would occur by the use of Participatory Learning Approach (PLA) for integrating women’s own priorities and strategies in the mainstream of development. This study is aimed at stimulating an inquiry into the favorable circumstances for women to venture, motivational factors, socio-economic and managerial aspects of tangible and intangible benefits of the women micro enterprises in Karnataka state of India. The study also represents physical and financial achievements of various institutions who extended support credit for women entrepreneurial development in the state.