• Sharada Shiva Prasad

Women entrepreneurship plays pivotal role in economic empowerment of women, economic growth of nation, reduction in inequality between men and women and the like. Entrepreneurship is a big responsibility which requires education, work experience and confidence in completing the job. Economic participation by female in India is comparatively low due to certain family responsibility and social obligations. But women are expert in household activity and maintenance of her family. Therefore she selected some of the business like catering, event management, small business, tailoring, cooking to support her family. The present study is based on the secondary data under the objective of knowing the opportunities for economic empowerment of women and problems faced by the women entrepreneurs in Karnataka. The study concludes with the suggestions that education, training and change in social structure are important factors for empowerment of women.

Women Empowerment, Opportunities, Challenges,

"OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES OF WOMEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN KARNTAKA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.940-945, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1908140.pdf

"OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES OF WOMEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN KARNTAKA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp940-945, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1908140.pdf