An Exploration of Women’s Empowerment in Micro-Entrepreneurship

Abstract

Enabling women to participate in economic development is not only a daunting and challenging task, but it also paves the way for sustainable development in the future. Women’s entrepreneurship concerns both the status of women in society and the role of entrepreneurship in the same society. Since women entrepreneurs face several challenges directly on the market to conquer their product in order to allow them access to the same opportunities as men. Women can face obstacles in other developing countries when it comes to owning property and entering into contracts. Networks of women entrepreneurs are a major source of knowledge about women’s entrepreneurship and are increasingly recognized as a valuable tool for their development and promotion. This network helps to offer lectures, printed materials that convey technical knowledge of production, manufacturing, procurement, management and marketing among other rural women. It really helps to create jobs for a number of people within their own social system and is the best tool for rural women as it enables them to raise their family income while caring for their own home and domestic animals. Unless they are made powerful, alert and aware of their equal status in society, particularly in rural areas, empowerment would have no sense. Policies should be set up to bring them into society’s mainstream. Especially in rural areas, educating women is important. The need for the time is to improve the literacy of women as education holds the key to women in rural Bangladesh’s development.