2020
DOI: 10.3390/admsci10040087
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Women’s Entrepreneurship in the Global South: Empowering and Emancipating?

Abstract: This paper addresses the following questions: Are women entrepreneurs empowered by entrepreneurship, and critically, does entrepreneurship offer emancipation? Our theoretical position is that entrepreneurship is socially embedded and must be recognized as a social process with economic outcomes. Accordingly, questions of empowerment must take full account of the context in which entrepreneurship takes place. We argue that institutions—formal and informal, cultural, social, and political—create gendered context… Show more

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“…In patriarchal societies, men tend to be more favoured in the rules of the game than women (Ojediran and Anderson, 2020). Our findings revealed that married women could only participate in entrepreneurship if they were part of a group of women.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In patriarchal societies, men tend to be more favoured in the rules of the game than women (Ojediran and Anderson, 2020). Our findings revealed that married women could only participate in entrepreneurship if they were part of a group of women.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Women's empowerment has received a lot of attention in social sciences and economic research (Al-Dajani and Marlow 2013;Wood et al 2021;Ojediran and Anderson 2020). It is considered paramount for achieving gender equality as an important antecedent for poverty alleviation and socio-economic development (UNDP 2018).…”
Section: Empowerment Entrepreneurship and Multi-actor Engagementmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It is expected that entrepreneurial activities lead to a certain financial and economic autonomy, which will enable women to liberate themselves from gendered constraints that have hindered the development of their potential (Nawaz 2019;Bastian et al 2019). However, Ojediran and Anderson (2020) reveal how gendered formal and informal institutions in the Global South continue subjugating women and maintain the second-class status for female entrepreneurs despite empowerment efforts by various national governmental and international development agencies. Among others, research blames entrepreneurship programs that, based on a flawed neo-liberal economic logic, which is firmly anchored in Western thinking and which is blind with regard to the needs of different cultural contexts (Ennis 2019;Escobar 1992).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Women and youth still face considerable challenges when starting their own businesses. For women, the main obstacles include social norms, which place the burden of family care and household chores solely on their shoulders; limited experience and skills; narrow social networks due to their lower labour force participation rates; restricted mobility and less access to financial resources (El-Shorbagi et al , 2017; Ojediran and Anderson, 2020). Similarly, youth suffer from a lack of business skills and the inability to meet the rigid lending requirements of financial institutions (OECD, 2017).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%