According to a study conducted on the women of about 128 countries to assess the global barriers that exist for women entering the mainstream workforce of the national economy, while microfinance is the source of capital for women with an entrepreneurial bend of mind and looking to lift themselves out of poverty, there are others for whom microcredit becomes a burden. It is for such fractions of the female population that there is a need for a concerted effort on the parts of governments and businesses to help women get beyond microfinance and find employment options suitable to them. Read more here and here. Read the report “Empowering the Third Billion: Women and the World of Work in 2012” here.