Entrepreneurial Skills and Women Empowerment: A Study on the Role Self Help Groups

Women have been regarded as the nuclei of nation and builder and moulder of its destiny. It is fact that when there is development of women, family develops, the society develops and the country develops. Central to inclusive and sustainable industrial development is the urgent need to harness the economic potential of women as they form half of the world's population. By 2020, 870 million women who have been living or contributing at a subsistence level will enter the economic mainstream for the first time as producers, consumers, employees and entrepreneurs. The economic impact is expected to be staggering.