these studies examined the increasing participation levels of asian women in business ownership an interesting finding of the researches in the united kingdom dhaliwal and ram and jones is that asian women are not strongly represented in selfemployment because there is a tendency for some women entrepreneurs to be invisible and their existence unacknowledged these hidden women dhaliwal say it is their husband father or brother who run the business and they are masking the extent of their role even if they are playing a pivotal role in the management of the business