Meet Kashmir's female entrepreneurs
- On most Fridays Muzamil Bashir can smell the pungent odour of tear gas fired by Indian forces on demonstrators outside Srinagar’s Grand Mosque.
Bashir is the first woman in her conservative Muslim family to start her own business and watching her succeed over the past seven years has become a source of pride for them. The mosque is the site of regular protests against Indian rule, which often turn violent, but despite the difficulties that has not put Bashir off.“Customers definitely feel fear because of the number of government troops deployed nearby,” she said. “We carry on with our lives despite these struggles.”Despite three decades of conflict and social unrest in Indian-administered Kashmir, women are making strides towards achieving gender equality.
Conflict in Kashmir has strained the region economically; unemployment is high as private investors steer clear due to the instability. “The situation for women in Kashmir is really bad due to financial instability,” Nazneen said, adding that the EDI had trained nearly 200 women in the last year alone and provided seed capital to 621 business units run by women in the region over the past few years.
Akhtar runs eight shawl weaving looms and employs 25 workers. Depending on the intricacy of the design, a shawl can take from several months to a year to make.“In eight months, I’ve earned $35,000,” Akhtar said. “In one two-day exhibition, I earned $2,200 in profit alone.”It’s not just in clothing that Kashmiri women have found a niche.A graduate of the Indian Institute of Sciences Bangalore, she got the idea while working as a researcher in South Korea.
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