From Despondency to Ambitions: Women's Changing Perceptions of Self-Employment

Download or read book From Despondency to Ambitions: Women's Changing Perceptions of Self-Employment written by Uschi Kraus-Harper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1998, this volume takes an international approach to women’s evolving perspectives on self-employment, with a particular focus on women in India. Author Uschi Kraus-Harper draws on ten years of research and interviews, visits and observations, gathering women’s stories from around the world. This book deeply explores women’s situations, empowerment, changing perceptions of enterprise, the effects of poverty and gender and what success really means. It is about poor women and their relation to self-employment. It is also about why change has come to some women and not to others.