Pub Date : 2023-03-10DOI: 10.28934/jwee23.12.pp72-88
Ritu Yadav, Krishna Kumari, Chand Prakash Saini
Women entrepreneurship is an emerging issue that captures the attention of researchers and policymakers. Women entrepreneurship is the source of making women financially independent, socially connected, and mentally healthy. Women entrepreneurship is the way to empower women to utilize their skill set to earn profit from small-scale businesses and create jobs for many people. However, women's entrepreneurship still gets attention in a socio-cultural country like India. Women are facing tremendous challenges in the way to pursue their business idea. This paper explores entrepreneurial intention among Indian women during the Covid-19 crisis. The study has used a semi-structured questionnaire consisting of 27 statements of entrepreneurship motives for data collection. A Sample of 550 women was approached from rural and urban areas in Haryana (India) through purposive sampling. The final sample comprises 528 women, representing a 96% response rate. Data has been analyzed through SPSS. The study has used descriptive statistics, Exploratory Factor Analysis, and one sample T-test as statistical tools. The study identified Knowledge, Financial Motivation, Family responsibility, and Under-Employment as determinants of Indian women's intention towards entrepreneurship in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis. Knowledge, Money, Family, and Under-Employment factors significantly influence Indian women to choose entrepreneurship as a career in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-06DOI: 10.28934/jwee23.12.pp51-71
Milena Lazić, Valentina Vukmirović, Jelena Banović, Vladimir Simović, Mihailo Paunović
Digital labour platforms provide lower barrier access to employment and income generation for all, having a great potential to create almost equal opportunities for persons with different forms of disabilities to engage in the labour market while contributing to their inclusive employment. However, to be able to provide adequate services to their distant employers, remote workers must possess a sufficient level of digital competences, skills and knowledge. Accordingly, the paper seeks to assess the level of digital competences of persons with disabilities in Serbia and to establish whether there are any gender-related differences in that regard. The results obtained aim to identify the gap between the existing and required competences for starting an entrepreneurial venture or finding a job using freelance platforms. The paper’s main contribution reflects the fact that digital competences of persons with disabilities in Serbia in the context of their self-employment are a topic insufficiently explored in the existing literature.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-20DOI: 10.28934/jwee23.12.pp32-50
Widiyanto Widiyanto, Arif Yulianto, Muhammad Feriady, Ahmad Nurkhin
This study aimed to provide an overview of an effective entrepreneurship learning model for female students in vocational schools. The model was built based on previous research related to the characteristics and needs of women entrepreneurs. The method used in this research was Research & Development with a 3-step design, preliminary study stage, development stage, and model validation stage. This research involved 32 research informants. At the initial stage, a literature review related to the characteristics and needs of women entrepreneurs in Indonesia was carried out to design learning content. The next stage is the design of learning methods based on the needs and characteristics of Indonesian women. The results of this study are an effective learning model for female students in Vocational Schools. Then, at the model testing stage, it was found that the effectiveness of the learning model was based on the characteristics and needs of Indonesian women based on learning outcomes. The conclusion in this study is that the special learning model for women in Indonesia is very appropriate to be developed based on the needs and characteristics of women. Suggestions in this study are the need for support from various parties in optimizing the special learning model for women, based on the needs and characteristics of women entrepreneurs.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-17DOI: 10.28934/jwee23.12.pp1-31
Mavis Serwah Benneh Mensah, Evelyn Derera
Women’s entrepreneurship is an important medium for poverty reduction, economic growth and development. Nonetheless, it faces critical challenges that limit it from realizing its full potential. Feminist theories bring to the fore the diverse conundrums of women’s entrepreneurship and how to address them. This paper aimed to examine Ghana’s women’s entrepreneurship policies from feminist theoretical perspectives to determine how the policies address gendered barriers and support women’s entrepreneurship efforts. Premised on the transformative research paradigm, the paper involves content analysis of 14 purposively-sampled Ghana’s public policy documents. Consistent with policy expectations of the feminist theories, it was found that there are policies that seek to address gendered discourses, promote change of social structures in support of women’s venturing and enhance women entrepreneurs’ access to resources. Nonetheless, there are still areas that need further attention in all the three theoretical perspectives, particularly in pursuit of change in social structures and gender equality in access to resources. Although the policies justifiably tilt more towards the informal sector, inadequate attention to women operating in the formal sector could serve as a disincentive to the growth and development of their ventures and a deterrent to the graduation of more informal enterprises into the formal economy.
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