Gender Budgeting for Women Entrepreneurship: Karnataka Case Study.

Abstract

The journey from unemployment or employment to self-employment is liberating in multiple ways for the Indian woman. Education and financial support through state policy are often the prerequisites for this transition. In recent years, gender budgeting and gender-responsive policymaking all over the country is working towards enabling Indian women to be a part of the labour force, so that employed women financially support themselves and their families. Nowadays, some women are entrepreneurs as well as the breadwinners of their families. With the help of the case of Karnataka state, which is often ahead of others when it comes to novel methods of policy implementation, the objective of this paper is to find out if the current model of gender budgeting has the potential to improve in order to facilitate women entrepreneurship.