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@article{190363,
        author = {Ravi Shankar S and Dr. AR Annadurai},
        title = {Connecting Entrepreneurship and Empowerment: Legal Perspectives on Women in Business},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {12},
        number = {8},
        pages = {4348-4353},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=190363},
        abstract = {This article investigates the site of entrepreneurship and empowerment from a legal perspective, examining how women's entrepreneurship can disrupt and reframe legal systems. Entrepreneurship gives women economic autonomy and visibility in the public sphere, but it is also a rich portal into legal empowerment. By navigating business regulations, property rights, contract laws, and financial systems, women entrepreneurs increasingly interact with legal frameworks shaping their social and economic realities. As more women in the region engage in small and medium enterprises from textiles and food processing to digital services, they increasingly have interactions with legal systems governing business registration, access to credit, rights to property, and labor regulation. By drawing on field observations, policy analysis, and domestic case illustrations, the article examines how enterprise is transforming women's relationship with the law. It contends that special legal education, enabling policies, and access to justice are critical to ensure that enterprise enhances livelihoods as well as realizes sustained gender equality. The paper ends by making a series of suggestions for the enhancement of legal infrastructure and the promotion of inclusive business environments for women in the region.},
        keywords = {Entrepreneurship, Legal education, Legal infrastructure, Legal empowerment},
        month = {January},
        }