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Abstract
Poverty is the major impediment for women development. The efficacious strategy of eradicating poverty would be to provide sustainable livelihood opportunities to women. Creating employment opportunities through micro level enterprises is necessary. For the last two decades, women have been ventured into multi-tasking activities like earning while doing household chores. Significant number of married women have ventured into micro level entrepreneurial activities, but failed to sustain in the journey of entrepreneurship. The objective of this study is to record the present status of slum dwelling women entrepreneurs in three zones of Chennai. This study has used both primary and secondary data. Primary data was collected from 120 women entrepreneurs through convenient sampling method. The study finds that women in the slums of Chennai involved in micro level enterprises within the boundaries of their local area. It also showed that age factor does not have any association with women entrepreneurship.