Where women entrepreneurs find their niche
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CEDA’s previous analysis of India’s informal manufacturing sector showed that while women account for the majority of enterprise owners, they are concentrated in just four industries and a narrow range of economic activities within them. This article extends the same lens to the other two major sectors of the informal non-agricultural economy, trade and other services. Women own around one-in-seven informal trade enterprises (14.5 percent) and one-in-six informal other services enterprises (16.5