Abstract
In India, women had begun to participate in entrepreneurial work much before either china or Japan. The process in India had started in the early 1970‟s, whereas the same had taken place in the late 1980‟s in Japan and china. Women own one-third of small business in USA and Canada. As far as the number of women work force, Brittan has over three times than that of men ever since the 1980s. Women are employed in firms and businesses, initiated by women. The basic purpose of the study is to give broad idea on empowerment of women through entrepreneurship and analyze various dimensions of empowerment. There is dearth of research on the topic for the less developed area like Rayalaseema Region and this study is a very good addition in the existing research data base for future reference. To study the significant relationship between women empowerment & entrepreneurship, women empowerment is taken as dependent variable and entrepreneurship as independent variable. All other variables such as job, education, financial status, family background and so on were considered to be as extraneous variables. The paper aims outlining and functioning of 240 women entrepreneurs selected based on multi stage cluster sampling method in Rayalaseema region (Anantapur, Chittoor, Kadapa & Kurnool) of Andhra Pradesh. Especially discussions and individual interaction have been conducted with 240 women for collection of relevant data in the preparation of this study. The data were collected through questionnaire method and subsequently arranged in tabular forms to infer conclusions.
Keywords: Empowering, Extraneous variable, Independent variable, Work force
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