Economic Empowerment of Women Through Entrepreneurship

This book shows how SMEs are given importance to promote women entrepreneurship development in different parts of the world as well as in Bangladesh. Then it discusses the policy initiatives taken by the relevant bodies in the country and at the same time the strengths and weaknesses of the policy measures have also been discussed here. Furthermore, after having discussions with two focused groups of women SME entrepreneurs and some of the key informant interviews this study explores that besides facing problems with access to capital women in SMEs face several challenges in business management and product marketing. They also have to depend on the male members of their family most of the time to further proceed in their business and they lack sufficient technological and entrepreneurial education. Besides, due to lack of proper knowledge about entrepreneurial activities in SMEs women SME entrepreneurs in Bangladesh have limited scope to engage with different SME sectors. Therefore, most of the women SME entrepreneurs in Bangladesh are engaging with specific SME business like boutique, handicraft, and beautyparlor business and like.