Barreras al emprendimiento femenino universitario en estudiantes de la Universidad Técnica de Machala.

Abstract

Entrepreneurship is considered a key tool for the economic development of a country, that is the reason why many people have been inclined to develop their business ideas. However, it is visible that the percentage of women entrepreneurs is lower in relation to men, because this research seeks to determine what are those barriers that do not allow the development of female university entrepreneurship. The research has a mixed approach, that is, qualitative information was collected from the bibliographic review, as well as quantitative information collected through data collection. Therefore, a survey was applied to a sample of 1,300 students from the Faculty of Business Sciences of the Technical University of Machala. The survey included 6 categories of barriers: conceptual, gender and culture, structural, occupational, education and sector. The results obtained show that all the barriers considered in the research exceed the average score of 3 on the scale, that is, they have a considerable level of importance from the perspective of university women, and also allow us to conclude that the barriers of a structural nature are the main obstacles that women face when starting a business.