Gender and Entrepreneurship in Uganda: Women Manoeuvring Economic Space

Kikooma, Julius Fred

doi:10.5772/35573

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“…An ethnographic, postcolonial, FPAR research approach requires, foremost, a relationship of trust and reciprocity and acknowledgement of positionality (and what that means in terms of power, privilege, vulnerability, and incentive). Through reflection and discussion of challenges and injustices, opportunities arise for imagining ways to reconstruct the nature of systemic oppression and inequality and work towards a more just society [42].…”

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Whose SDGs and Who’s Making Them Happen?: Insights from Women in Uganda

Jones

2024

Sustainable Development

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This Feminist Participatory Action Research project with a cohort of women in Uganda explored how they understood the SDGs in relationship to their lived realities. A postcolonial feminist lens was used to engage with critical ethnographic policy theoretical perspective to consider the research questions: 1) Which SDGs are the most important to you? 2) What do unrealized SDGs look like in your context? 3) What would realize goals look like and what would it take to achieve them?; 4) Who is responsible for achieving the SDGs? Participants had had no prior knowledge of the SDGs but once introduced to them the participants ranked SDG1: No Poverty and SDG4: Quality Education as the highest in importance to them, followed by SDG 3: Good Health and Well-Being, SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, SDG: 10: Reduced Inequalities, and SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production. Participants expressed the implications of unrealized SDGs in their lives as well as the transformative change realized SDGs would bring. They also shared their thoughts on how the SDGs could be achieved in their context. The study recommends that those who are meant to benefit most from the SDGs be consulted on how to achieve them.

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Whose SDGs and Who’s Making Them Happen?: Insights from Women in Uganda

Jones

2024

Sustainable Development

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“…While Ouaye, et al, (2015) established very interesting findings, but failed to explicitly situate gender as a moderator in the relationship between social enterprises' activities and social transformation. Kikooma (2012) in an examination on, "gender and entrepreneurship in Uganda, observed that clarifications of entrepreneurial experiences remain to a great extent rooted in unorthodoxy zeroed in on correlations of male and female entrepreneurs (p. 15)". Further, Kikooma (2012, p. 27) reasons that, "the utilization of gender and cultural interfaces as conceptual tools with which to examine entrepreneurship, as both an economic phenomenon, can be seen as a first step towards rethinking female entrepreneurship discourse".…”

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The moderating effect of gender on the contribution of social enterprises to social transformation in Kiambu County, Kenya

Njenga¹,

Kitonga²,

Gatumo³

2022

IJRBS

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This study sought to establish the moderating effect of social entrepreneurs’ gender on the contribution of social enterprises to social transformation in Kiambu County, Kenya. The study used a descriptive survey design guided by mixed methods research on 322 sampled social enterprises drawn from a target population of 1944 social enterprises distributed across the 12 sub-counties of Kiambu County. Data were collected using survey questionnaires and interview guide instruments. A simple random sampling technique was used to get the proportionate sample for each stratum. In data analysis, both descriptive statistics (mean, percentages, standard deviation and frequencies) and inferential statistics (correlation and regression analysis) were applied. The findings showed the influence of the independent variable on the dependent variable being explained by R of 0.568. The findings also revealed that social entrepreneurs’ gender was likely to have an effect on the relationship between social entrepreneurship and social transformation of R2 = 0.322. By the estimates of the F-test, social entrepreneurship was found to predict social transformation by F (3, 281) = 77.330, p<.05.

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“…This model drastically changed the gender dynamics between men and women, as women were limited to the jobs of household responsibilities, while men were the only ones privileged to work in colonial establishments such as tea and cotton fields (Nayenga, 1981). Formal education was aimed primarily for men, as the new economy was meant for them to work in order to pay taxes (Kikooma, 2012; zu Selhausen, 2015). Therefore, the entrepreneurial spirit of women was limited and they were considered non-economic agents (Boserup, 1970), being marginalised out of school education among other economic activities (Akyeampong & Fofack, 2014), while men were privileged in the activities that the new system introduced and that continue to this day.…”

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Controversies and opportunities of two development measures for the advancement of women in Uganda: Formal education and Women entrepreneurship

Namasembe

Manzanera-Ruiz

2021

JECS

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Aim. The aim of the research is to investigate the relationship between formal education and female entrepreneurship in Uganda. This research hopes to contribute to the literature on education and women’s entrepreneurship in this country. Methods. Data is collected from 109 women through semi structured interviews. These are participants from the agribusiness sector and own businesses ranging from market stalls, retail shops to street businesses. Through the iterative process, emerging themes are analysed and discussed. Results. The research finds that formal education programs and macroeconomic policies negatively impact formal education and female entrepreneurship. Macroeconomic policies such as privatisation and the programs of universal formal education do not incentivize students (specifically female ones) to pursue a full formal education, influencing them to leave schools early for necessity entrepreneurship to meet immediate needs. Conclusions. Even though the study indicates that a formal education demonstrates high outcomes in terms of economic growth and development, the education level attained by women entrepreneurs is insufficient to meet true entrepreneurial success. Furthermore, the macroeconomic environment adds to the challenge of successful women entrepreneurship. Originality. Various economic initiatives have been implemented in the quest for gender parity in education and women empowerment in Uganda since its independence. Statistics have demonstrated an increase in women’s education and empowerment through entrepreneurship, however, such data do not necessarily reflect economic development. The results suggest that the relationship between formal education and women entrepreneurship is more complex and nuanced than previously believed.

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Gender and Entrepreneurship in Uganda: Women Manoeuvring Economic Space

Cited by 7 publications

References 38 publications

Whose SDGs and Who’s Making Them Happen?: Insights from Women in Uganda

Whose SDGs and Who’s Making Them Happen?: Insights from Women in Uganda

The moderating effect of gender on the contribution of social enterprises to social transformation in Kiambu County, Kenya

Controversies and opportunities of two development measures for the advancement of women in Uganda: Formal education and Women entrepreneurship

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