Vol. 12, Issue 6 (2023)

Author(s):
Dr. Mukta Surya and Dr. Sangeeta Gupta

Abstract:
The present study “Opinion of rural women regarding establishing of enterprises” was carried in two blocks of Kanpur Nagar; in each block six villages were selected randomly and in each village 25 rural women were selected. Overall, 300 rural women were selected from 2 blocks of 12 villages randomly. Out of total rural women 36.7% belonged to 50 years and above age group, whereas it was observed that 58.7% rural women were doing agriculture activity. 28.0% of rural women were educated up to intermediate and most of them belonged to OBC category and they mostly followed Hindu religion. 66.7% rural women belonged to the income group of 50000 to 100000 and they had holding of about 2.5 to 5 acres land. Majority of rural women 84.7% belonged to nuclear family where they had 5 to 8 members in family whereas mostly were married. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the position and opinion of rural women to know about the supporting elements in regarding women entrepreneurship in rural areas of India. The outcome of this paper exposes that major opinion of rural women is self-employment requires cooperation from the family and it will raise the socio-economic status of the rural women in society.