Cultural Factors and Gender Role in Female Entrepreneurship (Aspectos Culturales y Rol de Género en Iniciativas Empresariales Femeninas). PDF Download

Author: Alicia Rubio Bañón
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Languages : es
Pages : 9

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English Abstract: Women play an important role in entrepreneurship although feminine entrepreneurship is lower than masculine entrepreneurship. However, the distance between both entrepreneurship rates (male-female) varies across countries because of the influence of different roles and stereotypes on entrepreneurial behavior. In order to understand those differences, this paper analyzes the distance between male and female entrepreneurship from a cultural perspective in 55 countries. Findings show that there is no clear relation between country masculinity and gender entrepreneurship breach.Spanish Abstract: Las empresas creadas por mujeres representan una parte sustancial del emprendimiento, a pesar de que los hombres superan a las mujeres en la tasa de creación de empresas. A pesar de ello, un análisis de las cifras a nivel mundial muestra que la distancia entre tasas de emprendimiento según el género varía en función del país analizado. Esto es así debido a que los roles y estereotipos influyentes condicionan una conducta más o menos emprendedora. Para analizar estas diferencias en este trabajo se estudia la distancia existente entre el emprendimiento de hombres y mujeres desde una perspectiva cultural utilizando una muestra de 55 países. Los resultados observados no permiten establecer una relación entre el nivel de masculinidad del país y la brecha de género en emprendimiento, tal como habíamos propuesto.

Author: Guelich, Ulrike
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1789905044
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Women’s entrepreneurship is an effective way to combat poverty, hunger and disease, to stimulate sustainable business practices, and to promote gender equality. Yet, deeply engrained cultural norms often prescribe gender-specific roles and behaviors that severely constrain the opportunities for women’s entrepreneurial activities. This excellent new volume of work from the Diana Group explores this paradox.

Author: Maria García Palma
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Languages : es
Pages : 6

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English Abstract: This paper, the result of a broader research on female entrepreneurship, aims to analyze the competence dimension of knowledge on women entrepreneurs. The method used is qualitative, comparatively analyzing the speech and enterprising entrepreneurs develop knowledge about and taking these as a constitutive dimension of competencies, while a construction linked to processes and social structures. To this end, a descriptive analysis and a sociological analysis level were conducted, trying to identify whether there are specific features in such dimension on female entrepreneurs. The results show that a particular construction of knowledge in women entrepreneurs, whose justification would be given by the educational level and starting the process of building knowledge and learning process thereof may occur.Spanish Abstract: ResumenEste artículo, fruto de una investigación más amplia sobre emprendimiento femenino, tiene como objetivo analizar la dimensión competencial de los conocimientos en la actividad emprendedora de las mujeres. El método empleado es de tipo cualitativo, analizando comparativamente el discurso que emprendedores y emprendedoras desarrollan en torno a los conocimientos, y tomando estos como una dimensión constitutiva de las competencias, a la vez que una construcción vinculada a procesos y estructuras sociales. Para ello se ha llevado a cabo un análisis de nivel descriptivo y un análisis sociológico, tratando de identificar si existen rasgos específicos en dicha dimensión en las emprendedoras femeninas. Los resultados muestran que puede producirse una construcción particular de los conocimientos en las mujeres emprendedoras, cuya justificación vendría dada por el nivel educativo de partida y por los procesos de construcción del conocimiento y del proceso de aprendizaje de las mismas.

Author: Sally Ann Davies-Netzley
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135720932
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 170

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This book makes an important contribution by comparing the experiences of white and Latina women who own and operate businesses in the U.S. economy. While accounting for the significance of gender, ethnicity, and social class, Davies-Netzley explores the various pathways that women take to becoming entrepreneurs and the economic, social, and cultural capital they use along the way.

Author: Joseph Katie
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ISBN: 9783656376248
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Languages : de
Pages : 40

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Master's Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject Women Studies / Gender Studies, grade: B+, State University of New York at Stony Brook, course: Sociology - Gender Studies, language: English, abstract: No society has ever been comfortable with the natural sex discrepancies between men and women. Evidence shows that apart from the natural sex differences, every society culturally portrays women as different and inferior compared to men (Blessings, 2010; OECD, 2004; Vogel, 2003). Specifically, Brindley (2008) posits that this obvious differentiation amounts to social gender role profiling. Arguably, it is not enough for a man to be male or for a woman to be a female they must be painted as masculine or feminine. Social gender role can therefore be referred to as a kind of cultural sex assigning where women are painted as feminine and men are portrayed as masculine. Social gender role profiling expects men to learn and practice the assigned male gender roles while women are expected to learn and practice the assigned feminine roles. Vogel (2003) agrees that from an early age, boys are taught that masculinity is superior to femininity while girls are taught that femininity is about being submissive. The society expects men to be aggressive and show a sense of control in all matters they undertake while women are expected to be supportive to men but should not take leading roles in mainstream activities such as politics and entrepreneurship (Appelbaum, Audet and Miller, 2002). Any deviation from these held cultural sex assigning is usually met with outright societal condemnation and the responsible persons are referred to as rebels. Interestingly, masculine and feminine gender roles strengthen each other in a mutual manner. Since gender role is a psychological profiling system, persons who embrace masculine and feminine roles indirectly perpetuate societal inequality - even some employment opportunities are referred to as girlish (Blessings, 2010). It is interesting t

Author: Helene Ahl
Publisher: Copenhagen Business School Press
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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"Departing from a social constructionist understanding of gender, this book examines how the female entrepreneur is constructed in research articles. It finds that even if the texts celebrate women's entrepreneurship, they do it in such a way as to recreate women's secondary position in society."

Author: Clare D'Souza
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781864461978
Category : Businesswomen
Languages : en
Pages : 17

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Author: Carmina Pérez Pérez
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Languages : es
Pages : 7

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English Abstract: Researches on entrepreneurship from a gender perspective reveal significant differences not only between the levels of participation of men and women in business, but also between the orientations, motives and business opportunities for both. Based on this fact, the following investigation is performed, whose objective is twofold: firstly, to know what are the aspects that influence the entrepreneurship of women and secondly, to identify what factors determine and/or difficult the creation and development of business that they undertake. To achieve both, it is reviewed, first, the literature on this subject and, second, are exposed the main results of the qualitative analysis with Atlas.ti from interviews with a group of Spanish entrepreneurs.Spanish Abstract: Las investigaciones sobre emprendimiento femenino desde la perspectiva del género revelan diferencias significativas, no solo entre los niveles de participación de hombres y mujeres en la actividad empresarial, sino también entre las orientaciones, motivaciones y oportunidades empresariales de ambos. En función de este hecho se plantea el siguiente trabajo de investigación, cuyo objetivo es doble: por una parte, conocer cuáles son los aspectos que influyen en la iniciativa empresarial de la mujer y, por otra, identificar qué factores condicionan y dificultan la creación y el desarrollo de los negocios que estas emprenden. Para la consecución de ambos se revisa, primero, la literatura especializada sobre esta temática y, a continuación, se exponen los resultados más destacados del análisis cualitativo realizado con el programa informático Atlas.ti a partir de entrevistas a un grupo de emprendedores españoles.

Author: Ma. del Carmen Liquidano Rodríguez
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Languages : es
Pages : 12

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Spanish Abstract: El objetivo de este trabajo buscó describir diversos desafíos a los que se enfrenta la mujer empresaria al iniciar y desarrollar su empresa y su relación con aspectos culturales de educación familiar así como la relación con el contexto en el que participa. Este estudio se desarrolló con 17 empresarias- propietarias que empleaban 238 trabajadores a mayo de 2012, predominantemente casadas, con hijos, con estudios de licenciatura, integrantes de una Asociación que contaba con 42 empresarias asociadas. La muestra representó el 40.48% de la población de estudio, propietarias de micro, pequeñas y medianas empresas (MiPyME), de la ciudad de Aguascalientes, México. Los resultados muestran que rara vez, se enfrentan a discriminación, envidias, represiones y acoso moral. En cuanto a los factores culturales predominantes, las mujeres empresarias están de acuerdo en que la mujer es cuidadora del bienestar familiar y preparada psicológicamente para ser madre. En la prueba Rho de Spearman se obtuvieron correlaciones significativas positivas entre el desafío de formar y educar a los hijos y los factores culturales de renunciar a su profesión y permanecer en el hogar, además del hallazgo de que a mayor acoso laboral, son menores los ingresos y tienen menos posibilidades de acceder a cargos directivos.

Author: Gay Young
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317610229
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 261

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How has globalization worked for women working on the frontlines of neoliberalism on the Mexico-US border? This border divides "US" from "Others," and produces social inequalities that form a site where marginalized border women encounter the othering power of neoliberalism and confront inequalities of gender and class. Within this context, a critical comparison of socially similar women, working either in export production industries or in small-scale commerce and low-level services in Ciudad Juárez, reveals how export factory work constrains women’s empowerment at home – as well as the wages they earn and the well-being of their households. This volume challenges the neoliberal rationale of "empowering" women to support market growth, and argues instead for understanding women’s empowerment as a process of transformation from disempowerment by gender power relations to challenging masculinist domination in households and, ultimately, the economy and society. Because structures of gender and globalization are mutually constituted, women’s empowerment as gender democracy is integral to producing alternative, democratic globalization. Using a feminist methodology that gives attention to the standpoint of women located on the downside of social hierarchies and takes into account strategically diverse points of view, this study develops analysis to counter neoliberal globalization as it touches down in the lives of ordinary women and men on the border and beyond.