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Self-Employment, Waged or Unpaid Work: Influences on the Choices of Poor Women

In: Land, Labour and Livelihoods

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  • Dimple Tresa Abraham

    (Centre for Women’s Development Studies)

Abstract

This chapter examines the choices of women who are supported with technical and financial resources from the Kudumbashree programme in Kerala to initiate self-employment via group-owned micro-enterprises. The results indicate that while some remain in the group based self-employment, others—both housewives with no prior paid work experience and former wage workers—may be predisposed to drop-out due to enterprise failure. Does the failure of group enterprises constitute a waste of scarce resources? Critics of the programme consider the subsidy provided to the groups as a drain on Government resources as many enterprises are short-lived. However, in the current socioeconomic context and prevailing inequalities therein, the group approach remains relevant for improving women’s participation in economic activities in regions where patriarchal influences remain strong.

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  • Dimple Tresa Abraham, 2016. "Self-Employment, Waged or Unpaid Work: Influences on the Choices of Poor Women," Gender, Development and Social Change, in: Land, Labour and Livelihoods, pages 285-307, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:gdechp:978-3-319-40865-1_14
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-40865-1_14
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