WOMEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A CASE STUDY OF SHANTI PERFUMERY KALBURAGI
Women constitute a chunk of 48.5 % of total population (Census 2011). Women workforce constitutes an integral part of total workforce in India. They constitute one third of labour force and supply two third of the total working hours and yet they are earning only one-tenth of the income and they own only 1% of the prosperity. In India, Women’s work is invisible, unrecognized and under remunerated.31% of Indian workers are women. 96% of women are in unorganized sector. 36% women workers are poor. Compared to male counterparts women have limited access to educational and employment opportunities. For women the extent or control enjoyed by women over their lives and the extent to which they have access to the decision making process are very important.