Socially constructed obstacles that obstruct a particular group of people by gender bias. In this case, the difficulties experienced by women entrepreneurs because of their gender. Thus, it is noticeable that even with the rise of women in the business environment, these gender barriers hinder their full development.
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Women's Self-Perception of Opportunities and Challenges for Entrepreneurship
Jannielton de Sousa Santos (Instituto Federal do Piauí, Brazil), Johannes de Oliveira Lima Júnior (Instituto Federal do Piauí, Brazil), Rafael Fernandes de Mesquita (Instituto Federal do Piauí, Brazil), and Vera Lúcia Cruz (Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Brazil)
Copyright: © 2020
|Pages: 16
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1981-3.ch018
Abstract
The figure of the woman, in the business context, has been gaining strength and space, being perceptible its rise in the entrepreneurship, over the last decades. However, this space is still predominantly male, making it harder for women to join this environment. With this in view, several researches propose to study the entrepreneurship of women, however, with a lack of feminist perspective. In this sense, this chapter aims to analyze the self-perception of female students of the course of business administration on their possibilities and challenges of acting as entrepreneurs. This research uses interviews with young women students of a course of business administration as a data, under a qualitative approach and analytical treatment. As a result, it was found that, from the interviewees' perspective, women still have their entrepreneurial ascendancy restricted mainly by prejudice and male discrimination still in force, although they believe that little by little this reality has changed.