EMPOWERMENT AND ENTREPRENEURIAL EFFECTIVENESS
Dr. A. Sylvia Daisy
Author / Research Scholar
About the Author(s)
Dr. A Sylvia Daisy works as an Associate Professor at Madras Christian College in the Department of Social Work, Self Financed Stream. She has been associated with MCC since August 2007. She has been teaching Social Work since 1999. She is the Director in charge of Family Life Institute, a unit of Madras Christian College that caters to the health and economic needs of rural women and children and also contributes to the development of the rural community in Chengalpet District, Tamilnadu. She is a Committee member of the Institution Innovation Council of Madras Christian College and the Nodal Ofcer representing the Department of Social Work, SFS at School of Continuing Education, Madras Chritian College. She pursued her Ph.D. in Social Work discipline from Bishop Heber College afliated with Bharathidasan University. Her Ph.D. thesis focussed on “Entrepreneurship and Empowerment of Womenâ€. She is the author of the book titled “Marriage and Familyâ€. She has been the Guest Editor of the Inte ational Jou al on Social Work Management. She is interested in research and has published more than 25 research papers. She has made several paper presentations at National and Inte ational Conferences. Among those eight were on Women Entrepreneurship and Poverty Alleviation. Her paper on Women Entrepreneurship, Empowerment, and Marital Satisfaction was presented at the 6th EMES Conference organized by Catholic University, Louvain La Neuve, Belgium from July 7th to 12th 2017. which was supported by the University Grants Commission, Gove ment of India. Her Research paper presentation on “Life Skills and Utilisation of Health Services among Rural women†at the Joint World Conference, organized by the IFSW at Stockholm, Sweden in July 2012 was partially supported by Madras Christian College. As the Secretary of Anbagam, she involved herself in the following projects and made a remarkable contribution, Tribal Children Nutrition project 2014 to 2019, Tribal Women Entrepreneurship and Empowerment project 2017 to 2019, Chennai Floods Relief and Rehabilitation project 2015, Vardha Cyclone Relief and Rehabilitation project 2017, COVID 19 Relief and Rehabilitation project 2020. She was a member of the Sub Committee for Employment Generation, Education, Skills and Livelihood, Confederation of Indian Industry, Southe Region from 2018 to 2020. Since 2019 March she is a member of the Community Advisory Board, the National Institute for Tuberculosis Research, Indian Council for Medical Research. She is the Director of Commonwealth Organization for Social Work, London from September 2020. Teaching is her passion. Collaboration and Networking with people are her strengths.
Synopsis & Scholarly Abstract
Women constitute one half of the world’s population. Women entrepreneurs encompass approximately one third of all entrepreneurs worldwide. In India women as an independent target group account for about 586 million and represent half of the country’s total population as per the 2011 census report. Women in the economically active age group 15-59 years count for 58.4 % of the women population in India (Tenth Five Year Plan, 2002-2007). In the era of globalization women in India have assumed greater responsibility, both at home and in the world of work. They have entered all elds of business, industry and service sectors. There has been a massive growth in women’s employment in informal sectors. Realising the enormous potential and power of women the Gove ment of India at the center and state and the Non- Gove ment Organisations have promoted empowerment and entrepreneurship programs to employ the same in nation building and economic development. This study aims to nd the causal relationship between empowerment and entrepreneurship effectiveness of women entrepreneurs.