Women Micro Entrepreneurship and Socio Economic Development in Khulna

Micro and Small Enterprise (MSE), around the world, contributes strongly to economy and therefore draws increasing concern from the stakeholders. Bangladesh economy is also blessed with the contributions of MSE and with the increase of number of MSE in the country attention to the MSE sector is growing continuously. This research studies MSEs in Khulna City and its surroundings to find out the entrepreneurship scenario and its contribution to the socio-economic development. With data collected from 50 women entrepreneurs of the research area, the research concludes that entrepreneurship develops the status of the women at the firsthand and then society and country become benefited from that developed status of women because of women empowerment, increased productivity, social cohesion etc. But in the growth of entrepreneurship, there are lots of problems among which no back up support/link is mentionable. Without back up support/link, micro entrepreneurships become more vulnerable and in crisis time they very often fail permanently.