Women are a part of the nation’s manpower. This manpower of
Bangladesh has already shown its immense potential in different socioeconomic
sectors. Whatever development Bangladesh has achieved
during the last decade has been made possible by controlling population
growth, raising education level and by increasing its labor force
participation rate. Available national statistics reveal that women played
a dominant role in all these sectors. It has been found in various studies
that even with limited access to productive resources, women have
participated in the labour market in large number. Due to the
participation of women in the labor force, the overall participation in the
labor force has also multiplied in the past few years. Women also have
great potential as entrepreneurs, and this potential has been revealed in
their efficiency to undertake a huge number of micro enterprises through
using micro credit. Although women have minuscule access to big
capital, findings show that they proved their efficiency in undertaking
big enterprise too. It has been found that about 4 per cent of the garment
factories are owned by women entrepreneurs (Paul-Majumder 2003).
Thus, women constitute a potential group to undertake business venture.
This potential should be reaped to the fullest extent not only for the wellbeing
of the women folk of Bangladesh, but also for the development of
the country.