TY - JOUR
T1 - Economic factors influencing the empowerment of Peruvian women
AU - Alvarado Cáceres, Elena Jesús
AU - Reynosa Navarro, Enaidy
AU - Vela Meléndez, Lindon
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright: © 2025 Alvarado Cáceres EJ et al.
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - Objective: To determine whether economic factors are crucial in empowering women, guiding them towards growth and development opportunities, achieving empowerment, and contributing to two sustainable development goals of the 2030 development agenda: ending poverty and achieving gender equality. Methodology: The research was foundational, with a phenomenological and hermeneutic design. The applied technique was in-depth interviews with 12 women who had started a business within the last five years in a region of Peru. Results: It is evident that economic factors are decisive in business experiences and decisions, highlighting the necessity of having contingency funds to prevent operational impacts. Through entrepreneurship, women achieved economic independence, enabling them to support their families and impacting their empowerment. It concludes that to promote economic opportunity equality, addressing financing needs, encouraging economic independence, strengthening family empowerment, improving customer management, and facilitating access to government funds are essential. Conclusions: The narrative of the participants provides a solid foundation for designing specific policies and support programs that boost the economic empowerment of women entrepreneurs and encourage their active participation in the business sphere.
AB - Objective: To determine whether economic factors are crucial in empowering women, guiding them towards growth and development opportunities, achieving empowerment, and contributing to two sustainable development goals of the 2030 development agenda: ending poverty and achieving gender equality. Methodology: The research was foundational, with a phenomenological and hermeneutic design. The applied technique was in-depth interviews with 12 women who had started a business within the last five years in a region of Peru. Results: It is evident that economic factors are decisive in business experiences and decisions, highlighting the necessity of having contingency funds to prevent operational impacts. Through entrepreneurship, women achieved economic independence, enabling them to support their families and impacting their empowerment. It concludes that to promote economic opportunity equality, addressing financing needs, encouraging economic independence, strengthening family empowerment, improving customer management, and facilitating access to government funds are essential. Conclusions: The narrative of the participants provides a solid foundation for designing specific policies and support programs that boost the economic empowerment of women entrepreneurs and encourage their active participation in the business sphere.
KW - Access to Financing
KW - Economic Independence
KW - Financial Capacity
KW - Legal Framework
KW - Potential Customers
KW - Women's Empowerment
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=105001831166&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.12688/f1000research.149817.2
DO - 10.12688/f1000research.149817.2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:105001831166
SN - 2046-1402
VL - 13
JO - F1000Research
JF - F1000Research
M1 - 1182
ER -