Impact of Women Entrepreneurship on Women Empowerment in Bangladesh

Abstract

Women empowerment is the positive decision making power of their own, access to the information and control over resources and also increases economic strengthens of a country and this research is conducted to find out how entrepreneurship increases empowerment of the women. A structured questionnaire has been used to collect the data by face to face interview and all the target population are women and has been divided by two categories (House wife and Entrepreneur as well as house wife) and data is collected through Khulna region. To conduct the research I use percentile, mean, standard deviation and this research exposes women entrepreneurship has increased their decision taking ability most of the aspects compare to the house wife. So if they were provided with easy payable loans with general terms and condition they will be more confident, give a hand to the family, control over resources like man.

Keywords: Women, house wife, entrepreneurship, empowerment, decision taking ability