Women Entrepreneurs Need Support

Of the 6.66 million households, 31 per cent headed by women members of the family, and more than 51 per cent of the population are women, but only 23.8 per cent of them own a piece of land or a house. However, this achievement is the result of the impact of foreign employment and the split in the family, primarily in the districts affected by the 2015 Gorkha earthquake, where families were broken apart to claim the housing grant of Rs. 300,000 offered by the government for reconstruction of the house damaged in the tremors. Likewise, 31 women per 100 cannot read and write, while the number of males who are illiterate is 16 per 100, according to the National Census 2021.