Social Spaces-visibility of Women in a Geographical Locale:Women Headed Micro-Enterprises their Spread in Bijnor District of Uttar Pradesh in India

Rural industry has suffered a tremendous setback in the post Independence period to changed fiscal scenario in villages and small township spatial entities. Reforms like demonetization and various economic schemes percolating to the village level have made specific impact on the lives of rural populations as compared to urban. The women have been made to bear the worst of the brunt because they have already been burdened by the lee-ward shadow of illiteracy, unequal wages, unwanted, undesirable reproductiveity and further the bane of invisibility. This paper looks at the choices available to rural women of Bijnor district by conducting a survey of 100 village women to obtain their views on the changed fiscal scenario in the past one year. The methodology was of empirical quasi-participant research and the basic statistical tools of analysis were applied to arrive at the conclusions presented.