Abstract:
Half of the brainpower on Earth is in the heads of women. They provide
an essential opportunity for economic and social development and progress.
Women’s participation in any kind of economic activity is of a complementary
nature to their family incomes; their participation in no way reduces their family
duties. Women’s equal rights are now defined by women’s economic empowerment
and the ultimate empowerment is through entrepreneurship. So, Government and
private sector interventions have generally accelerated income-generating activities
of women both in the urban and rural areas with entrepreneurship development. The
ways in which women are involved in this sector are through selling labor (Wage
labor), engaging in trading activities (self employment) and operating small
industrial productions (enterprise owners).Working as labor may give them
temporary employment but it does not improve their conditions or promote their
advancement. Scope of trading activities especially in the rural areas, in view of
extensive poverty and the large number of people who need to engage in income
earning activities, is limited. Engaging in production or rural industrial activities
seem to be the most viable avenue for which the women should be assisted to take
up. Non-government organizations have equally joined hands with the government
efforts for economic salvation and provided various forms of opportunities for
women to help them earn living, paving the way for greater entrepreneurship
development. Women have now become aware of their socio economic rights and
have ventured to avail the opportunities initiated for them. Rural Bangladesh is now
a changed scenario for the women who have gathered courage to break barriers and
enter the off house working force as entrepreneurs and workers- a situation not
appropriate for women or accepted by the society in the past. The urban areas have
greater opportunities for business development but the areas where women lack
assistance are in the access to credit, provision of skill training, and market facilities
