Year: 2025 | Month: June | Volume: 12 | Issue: 6 | Pages: 598-606
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijrr.20250667
Entrepreneurship as a Catalyst for Women's Empowerment: A Case Study on the Tribal Women in Harichandanpur Block, Odisha
Jamuna Murmu1, Dr. Anita Pareek2
1Research Scholar, Commerce KISS DU University
2Assistant Professor, Commerce KISS DU University
Corresponding Author: Jamuna Murmu
ABSTRACT
Entrepreneurship plays an important role for women's empowerment through improving finance, decisional authority, and social mobility. This study was based on finding out the effectiveness of entrepreneurship with respect to women's empowerment particularly among tribal females of Harichandanpur Block in Odisha. Through conducting a qualitative thematic analysis approach the research assesses the influence that institutional support self-efficacy, and socioeconomic factors have toward the entrepreneurial intents and success by tribal women. In-depth interviews and focus group discussions were conducted with tribal women who were involved in micro and small enterprises. The results indicate that entrepreneurship offers economic stability and a sense of self-reliance, but the problems are that they have limited access to financial resources, inadequate market linkages, and socio-cultural constraints. The study further calls for the necessity of focused policy interventions, skill development programs, and improvement in access to institutional support towards improving the tribal women's entrepreneurial ecosystem. Such insights contribute toward deepening an understanding of entrepreneurship as a driver for sustainable empowerment of marginalized communities.
Keywords: Women's Empowerment, tribal women, entrepreneurship, institutional support, self-efficacy, Odisha
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