INFLUENCE OF DIGITAL ECONOMY ON FEMALE ENTREPRENEURSHIP: EXPLORATORY STUDY ON UZBEKISTAN

Abstract

The paper aims to explore the influence of some elements of the digital economy on an increasing number of female entrepreneurs and analyze this unit in the case of Uzbekistan to understand how digitalization trends support female business owners in the current country. Regarding that, data from five countries over the period 2014–2018 was used to conduct a correlation analysis to analyze the relationship between selected indicators and women's entrepreneurship. Results show that the variables have a strong relationship with each other, among which three top-related variables were selected to analyze the impact of the digital economy on businesswomen's activity in Uzbekistan. In the case of this country, it was revealed that the weakest-developed element of digitalization is international internet bandwidth. However, this variable had the strongest and most positive association with female entrepreneurship globally.