Re-defining Women Entrepreneurship through SHG Movement in R Swain, B K.
By: Swain, B K
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ArticlePublisher: 2009Subject(s): Rural Areas | Shgs | Self-Help Groups | Women Entrepreneurship | Micro-Finance | Micro-Enterprises | Micro-Enterprise And Micro-Finance | Entrepreneurshiphip Research | Eighth Biennial Conference On Contempora | Biennial Conference Papers
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Eighth Biennial Conference on Contemporary Issues in Entrepr ResearchSummary: Women are now preferred clients in banks because they can be persuaded to operate on gendered notions of decency and discipline. The whole effort of gendering development has been endowed with the postulation that empowering women will lead to wholesome development of the society. In fact, women have the entrepreneurial capacity to actually save and borrow and alter the grim irony of any situation. It is also established that when they formed into homogeneous self-help groups with credit-provisions, they are capable of lifting themselves out of poverty. The presence of women groups, who display their entrepreneurship through micro-credit support, can be regarded as one of the major contributions to the whole rural communities. The spirit of these groups to focus on micro-credit agenda and develop their standards of living is enormous which further catalyzes their creativity and commitment. To call self-help group as a self-help movement that is successfully eradicating poverty through entrepreneurship, would be no exaggeration. Self-help groups have corroborated that women can be organized and confront the reality of societal difference based on gender, caste, community and...
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Women are now preferred clients in banks because they can be persuaded to operate on gendered notions of decency and discipline. The whole effort of gendering development has been endowed with the postulation that empowering women will lead to wholesome development of the society. In fact, women have the entrepreneurial capacity to actually save and borrow and alter the grim irony of any situation. It is also established that when they formed into homogeneous self-help groups with credit-provisions, they are capable of lifting themselves out of poverty. The presence of women groups, who display their entrepreneurship through micro-credit support, can be regarded as one of the major contributions to the whole rural communities. The spirit of these groups to focus on micro-credit agenda and develop their standards of living is enormous which further catalyzes their creativity and commitment. To call self-help group as a self-help movement that is successfully eradicating poverty through entrepreneurship, would be no exaggeration. Self-help groups have corroborated that women can be organized and confront the reality of societal difference based on gender, caste, community and...
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