The paper contributes to the debate on women's empowerment and the discourses surrounding it. It examines the role of social structural variables in generating entrepreneurial orientation among women. Based on an extensive survey of debates and empirical findings in Punjab the paper goes on to demonstrate the resistance faced by women entrepreneurs owing to their social location and how they managed to overcome the social structural impediments.
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