Beyond the Critique: How Feminist Perspectives Can Feed Entrepreneurship Promotion in Developing Countries

Saskia Vossenberg
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Saskia Vossenberg: Consultant Gender and Women's Political Empowerment, NIMD | Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy; External Research fellow 'Women and Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries', Maastricht School of Management; Program manager 'Women's Entrepreneurship Promotion', Maastricht School of Management

No 2014/14, Working Papers from Maastricht School of Management

Abstract: How can we move the debate beyond feminist critique and present policy-makers and development practitioners with premises for entrepreneurship promotion in its attempt to overcome issues of gender inequality in economic growth and development? Feminist epistemologies can offer a set of conceptual advances and tools of analysis to define goals, problems and solutions for entrepreneurship promotion. By means of a literature review it is argued that a critical realist approach, as found in standpoint feminism, provides a strong basis for thinking through feminist concerns about entrepreneurship promotion. Consequently, four premises for feminist driven entrepreneurship promotion are presented.

Keywords: feminist theory; female entrepreneurship; developing countries; entrepreneurship promotion; policy. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 19 pages
Date: 2014-05
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