Entrepreneurship and women’s economic empowerment in Zimbabwe: Research themes and future research perspectives

Challenges of Female Entrepreneurship Pre-, During- and Post-Covid-19 Prospects in South Africa

“…Female entrepreneurship refers to the leadership of one or more women in initiating ventures that identify problems and creating solutions to them (Derera et al, 2020;Jaiyeola & Adeyeye, 2021;Nsengimana et al, 2017;Tola Zizile & Tendai, 2018). Basically, female entrepreneurship may be defined by gender as a form of identity to distinguish it from the ordinary conceptions of entrepreneurship that other scholars (Jaiyeola & Adeyeye, 2021;Yadav & Unni, 2016) argue is masculine biased.…”

“…Maciej Serda et al, (2017) (Jaiyeola & Adeyeye, 2021;Maciej Serda et al, 2017). For example, some men will not allow their wives to start a company for various reasons, such as being accused of prostitution, and as a result, female entrepreneurs find it challenging to engage in commercial activities needing them to travel away from home, such as crossborder trading, as they cannot leave families behind (Derera et al, 2020). Thus, women's participation in entrepreneurial ventures may need approval from their husbands.…”

“…Female entrepreneurship has become vital for many reasons, which are often tied to harnessing the untapped potential among females, encouraging gender parity in economic participation, fighting poverty and unemployment, the attendant individual, and national economic goals (T Zizile & Cimucheka, 2018), and increasing the size of the small business economy (Nxopo, 2014). Various scholars such as (Derera et al, 2020;Mustafa et al, 2016;Yadav & Unni, 2016) have hinted at the adolescence of female entrepreneurship scholarship in developing nations. Littlejohn et al (2017) called for more contributions from developing countries to be made to the female entrepreneurship discipline to establish a diverse scholarship.…”

Women Entrepreneurship as a Strategy for Sustainable Livelihoods

“…Non-profit organisations seeking to facilitate the entrepreneurship of women have been earmarked as powerful platforms with the potential to increase the sustainable incomes of women (Derera et al, 2020). These women participated in a two-year…”

“…Social entrepreneurship is the cornerstone of socio-economic development of women in society as it opens new job avenues both in the formal and informal economies. The structural humanist theory explores entrepreneurship as opportunities to address access to resources which can either encourage or discourage entrepreneurial behaviour amongst individuals (Derera et al, 2020). Globally, social entrepreneurship has emerged as a social development inspiration for private, public and social service sectors.…”