Understanding Feminism Perspective of Informal Women Entrepreneurs in Kyengera Town Council, Uganda

Abstract

The purpose of the essay was to examine the philosophical perspectives on informal women entrepreneurs in Kyengera town council with a focus on the following research questions: How do epistemological experiences and perspectives influence informal businesses? What are the sociocultural experiences of women entrepreneurs? The essay is positioned in the feminism perspective which looks into marginalization of women in entrepreneurial growth on gender. This is found in the feminist standpoint epistemology and provides a strong basis for thinking through feminist concerns about entrepreneurship promotion, and to be the most useful for putting feminist theory into practice (Vossenberg, 2014) with a need to transform and empower the women. The essay was guided by mixed methods design with both qualitative and quantitative approaches as Brush and de Bruin (2014, as cited in Vossenberg, 2014, p.9) note that feminist perspectives tend to be more implicitly than explicitly part of entrepreneurship research.