Towards Sustainability of Entrepreneurship among Rural Women Gender Responsive Institutional Support Services Geethakutty, P S.

By: Geethakutty, P S
Material type: ArticleArticlePublisher: 2007Subject(s): Sustainable Entrepreneurship | Microfinance | Microenterprises | Micro-Enterprises, Micro-Finance And Sus | Entrepreneurshipip | Seventh Biennial Conference On The New F | Biennial Conference Papers In: Seventh Biennial Conference on the New Frontiers of EntrepreSummary: How far banking sector's claim of empowering millions of women of below poverty line with micro credits and micro enterprises is factual? It is a fact that Indian rural women cannot be made entrepreneurs overnight. Majority of the members of women SHGs are reported utilising micro credit, in the place of loans which they used to borrow from local moneylenders for meeting family needs of non productive nature. A very low percentage of women SHGs only could initiate productive activities of sustainable nature with the micro credit. Majority of them are without access and control of production and managerial resources such as land, capital, credit, time, skill, knowledge, information, technologies, market and institutional inclusion or leadership. Discriminations of socio-economic and gendered nature had continuously kept them in the low ladders of economic activities. It is against these odds of disempowerment which the individual women face that, the group processes of SHGs are expected to empower them with entrepreneurship. For this to happen, locally adapted specific efforts of group for strengthening institutional support -services through technological and managerial capacity...
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How far banking sector's claim of empowering millions of women of below poverty line with micro credits and micro enterprises is factual? It is a fact that Indian rural women cannot be made entrepreneurs overnight. Majority of the members of women SHGs are reported utilising micro credit, in the place of loans which they used to borrow from local moneylenders for meeting family needs of non productive nature. A very low percentage of women SHGs only could initiate productive activities of sustainable nature with the micro credit. Majority of them are without access and control of production and managerial resources such as land, capital, credit, time, skill, knowledge, information, technologies, market and institutional inclusion or leadership. Discriminations of socio-economic and gendered nature had continuously kept them in the low ladders of economic activities. It is against these odds of disempowerment which the individual women face that, the group processes of SHGs are expected to empower them with entrepreneurship. For this to happen, locally adapted specific efforts of group for strengthening institutional support -services through technological and managerial capacity...

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