Women as Economic Leaders and Entrepreneurs: A Mixed Method Inquiry

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Women empowerment, one of the most debatable issues at this time. Tons of information on the impact of women as economic leaders and entrepreneurs; women-owned businesses made on a macro scale. Feminist Theory shinesa light on social problems, trends, and issues that are overlooked by the historically dominant male perspective within social theory. This study intends to compare the views of men and women; on women as economic leaders and entrepreneurs. This study will further prove that women can be great partners an integral member of the society in the stability of business and economy.

METHODS

Quantitative descriptive survey and Qualitative Comparative Analysis are utilized to analyze and interpret the gathered data of which twenty female entrepreneurs and twenty male entrepreneurs who own and sell were purposely selected as respondents who answered the survey and interview questions. Data were analyzed through descriptive statistical treatment such as frequency, mean, standard deviation; and analysis of variance to determine the significant difference of means of groups at one time. Thematic analysis was used to surface what causes the difference between the views of female and male entrepreneurs.

RESULTS

Quantitative and qualitatively, result shown that 63% of females are great competitors in businesses in Taytay, 86% of female entrepreneurs are even better than men in marketing strategy, women can do better than men when it comes in handling a business, and lastly, female entrepreneurs have potentials and good strategies to entertain and satisfy their customers. Hence, the number of female entrepreneurs here in Taytay Tiangge is increasing progressively and females are becoming open-minded individual to be a successful economic leader.

DISCUSSIONS

As of the findings of this study, women entrepreneurs nowadays are increasing, this can be true because of the dominance of female entrepreneurs in leading businesses in Taytay such as RTW, garments, sash, etc. Being competitive plays a major role in being a potential leader and effective entrepreneurs. Hence, the plausibility that female entrepreneurs contribute more than male in the economic growth in Taytay, are likely to be true. The dominance of female as effective entrepreneurs only characterized the role of women in society nowadays. On the other side, this study does not neglect to note that men are the leaders in many various fora in their own rights.