Female Empowerment through Entrepreneurship Education in Emerging African Economies

Abstract: This paper focuses on the study of entrepreneurship education and female empowerment in the emerging African economies. As the OECD conference on female entrepreneurs in small and medium enterprises held in Paris... [ view full abstract ]

Abstract:

This paper focuses on the study of entrepreneurship education and female empowerment in the emerging African economies. As the OECD conference on female entrepreneurs in small and medium enterprises held in Paris in 1997 and 2001 pointed out, a situation where females are discriminated against in business has negative economic, social and political consequences. For any country and lack of data on obstacles to females entry or success in business makes policy formation difficult (Woldie, et al. 2004). Female entrepreneurs have been designated as the new engines for growth and the rising stars of the emerging economies in the developing countries to bring prosperity and welfare (Minniti and Naudé 2010). Entrepreneurship has become an increasingly important source of employment and economic empowerment for females across many countries in recent years in the emerging African economies.

Therefore, this paper sets out to explore the limited research that is needed to address the phenomena of female empowerment and entrepreneurship education in the emerging African economies.

Females, entrepreneurship Education, Female empowerment, Africa, emerging economies [ view full abstract ]

Females, entrepreneurship Education, Female empowerment, Africa, emerging economies