Gender and Entrepreneurship an Experience with Tribal Women in TSP Area of Gujarat State
By: Jain, Lokesh
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ArticlePublisher: 2011Subject(s): Gujarat | Tribal Women Entrepreneurs | Gender | Women Entrepreneurship | Women | Women And Entrepreneurship | Entrepreneurship | Ninth Biennial Conference On Entrepreneu | Biennial Conference Papers
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Ninth Biennial Conference on EntrepreneurshipSummary: Gender is very important part of our society. It has nearly half proportion in total population. Since long this segment is ignored in the area of production or economic concern as well as our socio-cultural system. Thus, it becomes cut part of development stream of the nation. We know that in the man dominant society, socio-economic status of the women in rural or tribal area is very low. Tribal families are suffering from poverty, unemployment and underemployment pressure is there. Even whole families are involved in earning process. If women have potentiality for fruitful earning opportunities with spirit of selfsufficiency and self-reliance, they can contribute well to survive themselves. They can overcome from the survival difficulties by using their own eco-friendly productive skills based on exploitation of local materials. We have strong knowledge bank of HUNNER (skills). Tribal areas are rich with natural resources. Since long these tribal were being closed to nature and depend on the output of the natural resources for the livelihood purpose. They are laborious but not able to convert into fruitful gain. Now it becomes hard to survive due to lower confidence in their...
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Gender is very important part of our society. It has nearly half proportion in total population. Since long this segment is ignored in the area of production or economic concern as well as our socio-cultural system. Thus, it becomes cut part of development stream of the nation. We know that in the man dominant society, socio-economic status of the women in rural or tribal area is very low. Tribal families are suffering from poverty, unemployment and underemployment pressure is there. Even whole families are involved in earning process. If women have potentiality for fruitful earning opportunities with spirit of selfsufficiency and self-reliance, they can contribute well to survive themselves. They can overcome from the survival difficulties by using their own eco-friendly productive skills based on exploitation of local materials. We have strong knowledge bank of HUNNER (skills). Tribal areas are rich with natural resources. Since long these tribal were being closed to nature and depend on the output of the natural resources for the livelihood purpose. They are laborious but not able to convert into fruitful gain. Now it becomes hard to survive due to lower confidence in their...
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