ABSTRACT
Women's uncertainty usually reflects the outside world: the kind of personal and technical skills and attitudes that are required or preferred, the requirements of time and undivided attention to do a specific job, the technical requirements such as means of transportation are often antagonistic to women's ways or at least conflicting with women's reality. The local economy is rural, income is earned from agricultural labour, from farming and fishing, and a few government service jobs. From a development point of view, the non-enterprising women turned out to be the most interesting group of women, but also the most difficult to understand. Unlike the despondent woman, the uncertain woman often belongs to a women's group, but she is one of the passive members. Sometimes the wish to be self-employed is started by a process of change that has been initiated by a women's group or by a development intervention.
