Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry
Vol. 8, Issue 1 (2019)
Gender participation and work station analysis of bead making enterprises
Author(s):
Kavita Dua, Mamta Dilbaghi and Dr. Sudesh Gandhi
Abstract:
Entrepreneurs may be defined as a person responsible for setting up a business or an enterprise. He has the initiative, skill for innovation and who looks for high achievements. He is a catalytic agent of change and works for the good of people. He puts up new green field projects that create wealth, open up many employment opportunities and leads to growth of other sectors. Bead making is one of the small-scale entrepreneurs practiced in Northern western part of Haryana. Mangali, a little known village 12 km from Hisar in Haryana, where work goes on at a feverish pace from dawn to dusk in more than 100 units, producing wooden beads for rosaries for the domestic as well as the export markets. A bead is a small, decorative object that is formed in a variety of shapes and sizes of a material such as stone, bone, shell, glass, plastic, wood or pearl and with a small hole for threading or stringing. Beads range in size from under 1 millimetre (0.039 in) to over 1 centimetre (0.39 in) in diameter. The study was conducted in Mangali village (biggest producers of beads) of Hisar district for studying the gender participation, posture adopted in different activities of bead making process and studying workstation analysis. A well structured pre tested interview schedule was used to collect the data. Data collection was done using checklists and interview schedule.
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Kavita Dua, Mamta Dilbaghi and Dr. Sudesh Gandhi. Gender participation and work station analysis of bead making enterprises. J Pharmacogn Phytochem 2019;8(1):1477-1480.