‘We Mission’; A New Hope to Women Entrepreneurs Of Kerala

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International Conference on Research avenues in Social Science

Today in most of developing countries more and more emphasis is laid on the need for the development of women and their activity participation in the main stream of development process. Women entrepreneurship is a recent phenomenon of late 1960s. Earlier women were involved in self- employment mostly making home products like pickles and handicrafts, which could be produced on a very small scale at home to earn money to support scanty family income. Entrepreneurship can help women’s economic independence and improve their social status. The rural women are engaged in small scale entrepreneurship programs with the help of SHGs and through these they are economically empowered and attaining status in family and community. Kudumbasree also help women entrepreneurship development program in Kerala. In a recent report published in a newspaper describes that MSME got first position in Kerala for creating investment and employment opportunities in the State. Kerala also is introducing many new programs such as WE Mission, Summit, CAN, Sandash one…etc, during last year under the support of KSIDC and KSWDC. So this paper tries to indicate some programs recently implemented for the purpose of women entrepreneurship development in Kerala.

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