Gender and Social Entrepreneurship: Perspectives in the Context of Innovation

Authors

Rosa Rojas-Paredes
Research Professor at the Centro Universitario de Ciencias Económico-Administrativas (CUCEA) Universidad de Guadalajara (UdeG), Guadalajara, Jalisco, México.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3089-8432
Alejandro Campos-Sánchez
Research-Professor at the Centro Universitario de Ciencias Económico-Administrativas (CUCEA) Universidad de Guadalajara (UdeG), Guadalajara, Jalisco, México.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8768-3104
Elia Marúm-Espinosa
Research-Professor at the Centro Universitario de Ciencias Económico-Administrativas (CUCEA) Universidad de Guadalajara (UdeG), Guadalajara, Jalisco, México.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5565-6056

Keywords:

gender, social entrepreneurshp, innovation

Synopsis

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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Author Biographies

Rosa Rojas-Paredes, Research Professor at the Centro Universitario de Ciencias Económico-Administrativas (CUCEA) Universidad de Guadalajara (UdeG), Guadalajara, Jalisco, México.

Doctorate in Cooperation and Social Welfare from the University of Oviedo, Spain, and the University of Guadalajara, Mexico. Master's degree in Education from UNIVA. Bachelor's degree in Sociology from the University of Guadalajara.
She has completed distance diplomas in Public Policies, Gender Equity, and Interculturality from the College of the Americas of the Inter-American University Organization, Quebec, Canada, and Sustainable Development, Environmental Management, and Prospective of higher education in the face of Sustainable Development Challenges, the latter three from UCLA's San Diego campus.
Full-Time Professor and Senior Researcher "C" at the Center for Quality and Innovation in Higher Education (CCIES), Department of Human Resources, University Center for Economic and Administrative Sciences (CUCEA), University of Guadalajara (UDG).
She has a PROMEP profile. Her research lines are A) Public policies for the quality of higher education and institutional change. B) Interculturality, Sustainability, and Gender in contexts of social inequality.
Co-founder of the UNESCO Chair on Gender, Leadership, and Equity (2007). Coordinator of the UNESCO Chair on Gender, Leadership, and Equity (2018-present).
Associate and research coordinator at the Institute of Management and Leadership for Social Development (INDESO AC) since 2004.
She is a National System of Researchers (SNI) Level I member.
She participates as a professor in the following programs: Master's in Management and Policies of Higher Education, Master's in Business and Economic Studies, Masters in International Economic Relations, and EU-LA Cooperation. The National Graduate Program Registry of CONACYT recognizes these graduate programs.
She is a member of the Ibero-American Research Network on Work, Gender, and Everyday Life (TRAGEVIC); belongs to the group of researchers at the Center for Cooperation and Territorial Development (CECODET) based at the University of Oviedo, Spain, and is a member of the Inter-American Network of Education in Public Administration (INPAE).
She served as a Consultative Councilor of the National Women's Institute from 2013 to 2018 and was president in 2018.
She was a member of the State System for Preventing, Addressing, and Eradicating Violence against Women in Jalisco from 2013 to 2018. She participated in the Evaluation and Monitoring Council of the Gender Alert in Jalisco from 2015 to 2018.

Alejandro Campos-Sánchez, Research-Professor at the Centro Universitario de Ciencias Económico-Administrativas (CUCEA) Universidad de Guadalajara (UdeG), Guadalajara, Jalisco, México.

Professor and researcher at the University of Guadalajara.
Member of the National Researchers System of Mexico, level 1.
Vice-chairholder of the UNESCO Chair on "Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship"
Ph.D. in Business. University of Barcelona
MEd. Educational Administration and Policy. University of Alberta

Elia Marúm-Espinosa, Research-Professor at the Centro Universitario de Ciencias Económico-Administrativas (CUCEA) Universidad de Guadalajara (UdeG), Guadalajara, Jalisco, México.

She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), a Master's degree in Economics from the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE), a Bachelor's degree in Economics from the Universidad Veracruzana (UV), and a Technical Degree in Library Science from El Colegio de México.
She is a Full Professor "C" and Director of the Center for Quality and Innovation in Education at the University of Guadalajara.
She is a member of the National System of Researchers (SNI, Level II), Coordinator of the UNESCO Chair "Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship," evaluator of national and international programs and projects, and a member of national and international academic networks.
She is a member of the Citizen Technical Council of the Continuous Improvement of Education System (SIMEJORA) in Jalisco.
She has received multiple awards and distinctions for her teaching and contributions to social and educational innovation.
She Coordinated the UNESCO Chair on Gender, Leadership, and Equity, was the Academic Secretary of the National Association of Universities and Higher Education Institutions (ANUIES), Vice President of the Public Administration Institute of Jalisco (Chapter of the National Institute of Public Administration), and President of the Ibero-American Academic Network.
She has been a professor at the Metropolitan Autonomous University, the National Pedagogical University, the National Polytechnic Institute, the Matías Romero Institute, the Graduate School of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (Guadalajara Campus), and was a founding professor of the Higher Institute for Research and Teaching for Teachers (ISIDEM) in Jalisco.
She is a professor in the Doctorate in Higher Education Management. She has collaborated with the Doctorate in Education at the Autonomous University of Morelos, the Doctorate in Sustainable Development at the Autonomous University of Nuevo León, and the Doctorate in Education at the Autonomous University of Tamaulipas.
She has been a visiting researcher at the UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (IESALC), a Visiting Scholar at the Faculty of Education at Arizona State University (ASU), United States, at Paris 8 University, France, at the University of Costa Rica, at the National Universities of La Plata and Tres de Febrero in Argentina, at Lusófona University in Portugal, and at the University of the Coast in Colombia.

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Published

November 11, 2023

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ISBN-13 (15)

978-84-19803-85-6

doi

10.55965/abib.9788419803856