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100			_aManimekalai, N
245			_aInnovative Initiative to Promote Women Entrepreneurship Thro Entrepreneurs Association of Tamil Nadu [WEAT] _cAn Initiative of Centre For Women’s Studies, Bharathidasan
260			_c2007
520			_aWomen Entrepreneurship Development has been a challenge for many industrial promotional agencies in India. Entrepreneurship Development Programmes have not succeeded in bringing desired results. Efforts to promote entrepreneurship through STEP, EDC etc also yielded with limited results. Similarly teaching entrepreneurship in colleges, conducting awareness programmes has stopped with the awareness alone failed to go beyond taking up entrepreneurial activities. Given this it was attempted to analyse the prospects and problems of women in micro enterprises in Tiruchirapalli district which revealed that women entrepreneurs largely confirmed to micro scale of operation, mostly service and trade, and feminine and traditional nature of activities in which women were found since long. These women were not able to avail any formal credit and largely depended only on informal credit taking away their lion share of profit. Given that majority of the women entrepreneurs in the micro scale were pushed to assume such occupations due to their poor economic background, who do not have any organization or association to support their demands to government or any other bodies to collectively...
650			_aTirchirapalli
650			_aBharathidasan University
650			_aWomen'S Studies
650			_aWeat
650			_aWomen Entrepreneurs Association Of Tamil
650			_aWomen Entrepreneurs
650			_aWomen
650			_aWomen Entrepreneurship
650			_aWomen And Entrepreneurship
650			_aEntrepreneurshipip
650			_aSeventh Biennial Conference On The New F
650			_aBiennial Conference Papers
773			_aSeventh Biennial Conference on the New Frontiers of Entrepre _dMarch 21-23,
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