Potential of Cottage Industry in Azad Kashmir and the Role of Female Entrepreneurship

The study is aimed to explore the potential of cottage industry in Azad Jammu&Kashmir. The cottage industry holds a significant value in Azad Jammu &Kashmir where many families are engaged with it for their income generation.The indicators show that women entrepreneurship plays a significant role toboost the economic, social and cultural standard of the society. However,several problems affect the women through diverse ways due to structuralinequalities. The gender relationship in household hinders women from gettingtheir share of the economic benefits but still women continue to contribute andbear the dual workload in maintaining their status in the society. The CrossLoC Trade has opened the new advantageous opportunities for the AJ&Ktrading community, however; by increasing the size of the local manufacturersin Cross LoC Trade will directly benefit the home-based local industry whichultimately will improve the socio-economic status of the society