ABSTRACT
Women's enterprises are often home-based, and women have therefore been called "invisible women entrepreneurs" or "invisible hands". Women working from home are also often called 'homebased workers'; most home-based workers anywhere are women, in so-called developing and developed countries, and there is an increasing number of associations or networks of such home-based workers in many countries. The family of the negative pragmatic woman depends on her income, as she is the main or only income earner. She earns low but regular wages through some form of employment or self-employment, usually as a domestic helper or an unskilled day labourer working for a contractor. The positive-pragmatic woman may have the opportunity to get occasional or seasonal wage-work, but it is inadequate to meet her real needs. She may never have worked before, especially if she is older, but is doing, because she has to: the husband left her or died or is very ill, the children small or are not supportive.
