Gender and Social Entrepreneurship: Perspectives in the Context of Innovation
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This book aims to analyze, from a multidisciplinary perspective, the development of social entrepreneurship as the economic approach to social innovation, but with a gender perspective centered on female entrepreneurship, which has become one of the most potent strategies for women's economic equality in recent decades. The activities stemming from this perspective often address social issues related to the lack of opportunities, poverty, marginalization, and exclusion in the labor market, as well as situations of inequity and gender inequality. Therefore, analyzing female empowerment and leadership and their potential for generating innovative and sustainable social and productive enterprises is a way through which women will have more significant opportunities to improve their quality of life and increase their social and political participation, thereby contributing to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for the Sustainable Development Goals.
Universities must promote social entrepreneurship to support the transformation of society, promote job creation, and strengthen the formation of values and transversal skills in our students. In our academic commitment and our conviction to conduct research that contributes to understanding how social entrepreneurship projects are carried out and how women participate in and drive these projects, we present to the reader the results of works that will undoubtedly be enormously useful in understanding this approach to social innovation and will provide elements to advance innovative decision-making in the education of higher education students and in the training and actions of teachers, managers, and directors of these transformative institutions.
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