Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: Patricia Hernández Medina
Author-Name: Gabriel Ramirez Torres
Author-Name: Sandra Peñaherrera Acurio
Title:  Empoderamiento y emprendimiento femenino, una comparación rural y urbana, Cantón Latacunga, Provincia de Cotopaxi
Abstract: Resumen:La investigación
pretendió determinar la influencia del emprendimiento sobre el empoderamiento
de las mujeres en el Cantón Latacunga, identificando diferencias en el
comportamiento en las zonas rurales y urbanas; para ello se aplicó un
instrumento estructurado en tres secciones: características demográficas y
socioeconómicas, empoderamiento y emprendimiento. Mediante la estimación de un
modelo de mínimos cuadrados generalizados se determinó que la experiencia
emprendedora y el perfil emprendedor son significativos en la explicación del
empoderamiento para la totalidad de la muestra y para la zona urbana, no así
para la zona rural.  Abstract:This research focused
on determining the possible influence of entrepreneurship on women's
empowerment in Canton Latacunga, identifying differences between behavior in
rural and urban zones; to this purpose, an instrument was applied to a sample
of 384 women, of whom 151 reside in rural parishes and 233 in urban parishes.
The instrument was structured in three sections, the first relating to
demographic and socio-economic characteristics, the second to the approaches
proposed for estimating the level of empowerment and the third to family and
personal entrepreneurship, the reasons behind it and the reactions that made it
possible to measure the entrepreneurial profile of the women. A comparison was
made by contrasting hypotheses of differences in means or proportions, as the
case may be, as a first approximation to the identification of a possible
relationship between empowerment and entrepreneurship, to then estimate a model
of generalized least squares; The result is that the entrepreneurial experience
and the entrepreneurial profile are significant in explaining empowerment for
the entire sample and for the urban area, but not for the rural area. In this
case, entrepreneurial initiatives could be considered a source of income for
the household, without significant improvements in decision-making,
independence or the social and family value of women, due to the cultural
characteristics of the Ecuadorian Andes.
Classification-JEL: R1
Keywords: Empoderamiento Rural, Empoderamiento Urbano, Empoderamiento Femenino, Emprendimiento Femenino, Perfil Emprendedor Femenino, Roles de Género, Rural Empowerment, Urban Empowerment, Female Empowerment, Female Entrepreneurship, Female Entrepreneur Profile, Gender Roles
Pages: 173-199
Volume: 3
Year: 2021
File-URL: http://www.revistaestudiosregionales.com/documentos/articulos/pdf-articulo-2622.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
Handle: RePEc:rer:articu:v:3:y:2021:p:173-199