From Despondency to Ambition: Women's Changing Perceptions of Self Employment: Cases from India and Other Developing Countries
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Acknowledgements1Introduction12Handicapped by poverty and gender: The non-enterprising women203"In times of need women get busy": The enterprising women454Changing perceptions of enterprise815"Now that our eyes are opening": Some afterthoughts about women's empowerment120Appendices1271List of the women presented in this book1292Currency conversions1323Bibliography133
\ BooknewsAssembles anecdotal evidence, including interviews, visits, and observations, to discern whether poor women in developing countries believe that self-employment is a feasible solution to their economic difficulties. Kraus-Harper (Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar) assembles a list of "types" of women, such as enterprising, non-enterprising, and despondent, and analyzes how these women's varying attitudes affect their abilities to create viable mechanisms for supporting themselves and their families. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.\ \
