Opportunity of Women Employment in Handicraft Sector: An Empirical Study of Jamalpur, Bangladesh

Abstract

This paper considers how handicrafts industry is making a work group self-dependent. This research was emphasized on women entrepreneurs, whole sellers, retailers, employees and workers with handicrafts in Jamalpur district of Bangladesh. Now, "Handicraft” is a brand for Jamalpur which is growing with name and fame rapidly. The local people are designing, producing and distributing handicraft products over the country. These handicrafts are traditionally associated with the creation of artifacts as a source of experience and emotion while research is devoted to the production of knowledge.

The paper sets out the context of handicrafts as a field of opportunity for women of Jamalpur district of Bangladesh which is bound to the sensibilities of educated generation, better life and well establishment as well as to the production of emotional values. It introduces the need for further creative research in the handicrafts, which proposes experiential knowledge of economic development of this territory as the unifying way.

The outcome and contribution of the paper is a better understanding of the relationship between handicrafts and job or business opportunity for women in Jamalpur district. This sector has included more than 85 thousand women which is 91% of total involved people.