Rural Women - The Untapped Potential

Rural Women: The Untapped Potential is a book focused on budding entrepreneurs, management students, commerce students and management professionals who are inclined towards entrepreneurship and planning to have their own startups in the near future. This book is an effort to exhume the hidden potential which exists in rural women of India and with special emphasis on Maharashtra. This book reveals the various employment avenues extant in the rural areas which if tapped and used optimally can do wonders. The book covers various chapters like job vs. business, entrepreneurial mindset, entrepreneurial environment, self-employment avenues - sectors of employment, skill analysis, hand holding, training requirements and avenues, self-analysis, legal procedures involved in establishing one’s own startup, how to raise funds, etc. Thus, this book tries to cover all the areas which are required to be tapped so that the women, especially, the rural women can be made ‘Atma Nirbhar’ (self-dependent).

This book includes various live examples of rural women entrepreneurship and also brings to light what steps rural women should take to generate self-employment.

Key Features

-It covers all the areas which have to be taken into consideration when planning for a new startup.

-The language used in this book is quite lucid which makes it very easy to understand the concepts and examples for the reader.

-Explores the gap existing in the system because of which there are lots of hurdles and impediments in the way of entrepreneurship.

-Explores the various sectors where self-employment can be taken up, which will not only uplift the villages but also will make them self-reliant and will add to the progress of the country.