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ThesisItem Open Access Economic contribution and impact of small scale enterprise on women’s empowerment(CCSHAU, 2014) Chhabra, Shivika; Sehgal, BinooFemale entrepreneurship and the formation of women business networks is steadily rising but there are a number of challenges and obstacles that female entrepreneurs face. Women from low income countries often seek an additional means of income to support themselves and their families. The objectives of the study were to explore the nature of work and work pattern of urban women running small scale enterprises in Hisar city, to study women’s economic contribution to family expenditure and impact on their empowerment and to find out the benefits and problems faced by women entrepreneurs and to suggest suitable measures. A sample of 100 urban women respondents earning more than Rs. 10,000 per month were selected randomly from Hisar city by snow ball technique. It was found that 48 percent women respondents were having beauty parlours, 32 percent were running boutiques and 20 percent were having shops as the enterprise. 72 percent of the respondents had family saving as the source of finance for starting the enterprise. Majority of the respondents were working for about 8 hours which were equivalent to 310 man-days. Empowerment of respondents was studied with the help of six different indicators. In majority of respondents, the six indicators were found to be at low level before starting the enterprise and it increased to medium and high level after starting the enterprise. So, it was concluded that women entrepreneurs are more empowered now than they were before starting the enterprise. The results revealed that 100 percent of all the respondents felt the benefits like better level of living, families spending more on different day to day items due to increase in family income and families not have to think twice for purchasing small things as earlier. The presence of personal traits of respondents after starting the enterprise was more with respect to self confidence, independence, problem solving, managerial ability, communicability and development of technical skills. They were facing some problems due to enterprise like problem of too much fatigue due to over work/burden, lack of time for children, husband, in-laws and other family members, family conflicts due to over work/hectic schedule, cervical, wrist or backache problem, lack of time for social obligations/activities, lack of time for self care or self health and lack of time for sufficient proper sleep/rest. Suitable measures were suggested so as to solve the problems to some extent.