Top 5 Business Ideas for Women Sitting at Home

Since the last few decades, In developing nations like India, there is a significant increase in education, gender equality, sources of employment, entrepreneurship & skilled labour. But the scenario totally changed in the last few years since the existence of the covid -19 pandemic. Students carrier is getting ruined, people saw a huge number of labour cutting, startups getting closed & a lot of drastic changes.

Since then, people are focussing on self-employment, creating startups and preferring self-owned businesses. So today we will be talking about the top 10 businesses for ladies sitting at home.

Business ideas for women sitting at home

1.E-commerce Business

Yes, you heard it right, there is nothing to be worried about a lady managing an e-commerce store. In the beginning, you need to manage most of the things by yourself like, generating orders, packing orders, managing inventory & many other sorts.

Usually while thinking about an e-commerce store women worry about product selection, investment & a lot of other things. So let’s discuss these things in brief :

Which product should I select  for e-commerce if I am a women operating single handidly :

You might choose any generic product that’s available around you & that’s easily available to your location. You might take the help of amazon movers & shakers, bestsellers to get an overview of the products that are currently trending. You must prefer the products that are not bulky, easy to set up, easy to carry & of course non-fragile.

What’s the investment required for women to start an e-commerce business?

It will depend upon the type of e-commerce store or marketplace you are looking for. If you go for a marketplace like Amazon, Flipkart or meesho, you can start with a single product category and can easily start with 30-40 K INR.

What are the requirements to start E-commerce business?

You will need the following things :

1. A GST Number

2. Current account

3. Printer

4. At least 2 products with some stock

2. Beauty parlour store

This idea is the best-suited business idea for women, as they have good taste & easy hands in this niche. They can easily start this type of business with very little investment & advertisement cost is required for a beauty parlour business.

Advertisement automatically happens with the word of mouth by happy customers & moreover, you can easily get customers from social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook, etc. You can provide the following services to your customers :

• Spa and Salon
• Nail art studios
• Bridal makeup studios

3. Content writing

Writing is something that women are experts at. That’s one of the best job/business ideas for women sitting at home. Women's can easily start freelance work from home for writing for what they are experts. If you are an expert at content ideas & content marketing, you can easily write for your own blog. If you have technical skills you can start technical writing. You can easily earn 500-1000 INR rs a day if you are an expert content writer.

4. Handicraft art

That’s again something where women are very good. Women are blessed with creative ideas & unique handicraft ideas. IF you are also one of those who have very good hands at art & handicraft, you can easily start a handicraft business as of current scenario, there is a huge demand of Handicraft materials & arts.

5. Healthcare trainer

This is a skill that can be easily learned with short duration courses & once you have got the expertise as a health trainer you can easily launch paid subscriptions & health training videos as a health expert. Also, health domain is one of the evergreen business models & one can rely on any healthcare business type for a decent earning.