A study on rural women entrepreneurship in Tirunelveli district

Abstract

Women entrepreneurship is a recent phenomenon in India which came into prominence in late 1970 s. Now we see that more and more women are venturing as entrepreneurs in all kinds of business and economic activities. Though at the initial stage, women entrepreneurship developed only at urban areas, in recent times, it has extended its wings to rural and semi-urban areas too. In the seventies, women concentrated much on traditional activities only. But due to the spread of education and favourable government policies towards development of women entrepreneurship, women now, have changed their attitudes and diverted towards non-traditional activities too. They show favourable response to changing situations and get adjusted to them and have improved their position.