Empowerment and female entrepreneurship, a rural-urban comparison, Canton Latacunga, Cotopaxi Province

• Autores: Patricia Hernandez Medina, Gabriel Ramírez Torres, Sandra Peñaherrera Acurio
• Localización: Revista de estudios regionales, ISSN 0213-7585, Nº. 122, 2021, págs. 173-199
• Idioma: inglés
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Empoderamiento y emprendimiento femenino, una comparación rural y urbana, Cantón Latacunga, Provincia de Cotopax
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  • español

    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, em- poderamiento 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.

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    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 em- powerment 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 en- trepreneurial 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.