TITLE:
Women with Disabilities Training Programme on Entrepreneurial Skills
AUTHORS:
Brizeida Hernández Sánchez, Cedeño Greisy González, Tancredi Pascucci, Sánchez-García José Carlos
KEYWORDS:
Disability, Entrepreneurship, Formation, Innovation, University
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.12 No.11,
November
29,
2024
ABSTRACT: World index shows high dis-employment and sub-employment levels among people with disabilities, who cope educational and working barriers and impairment to have a work with dignity. Female empowerment is fundamental to guarantee better social conditions and cohesion and well-being in terms of gender equality. People with disability have social, health and educational barriers which create unproper social gap within these times; these people created economic alternatives to give to their families adequate resources during hard times. This paper aims to improve know-how on entrepreneurial activities. The objective is to assess the knowledge on entrepreneurial perceived skills and entrepreneur women empowerment for their business activities. There is the subministration of a diagnostic instrument on 80 women with disability and their families. There is also a sociodemographic scale which measures sex, age, educational level and profession. There is also the subministration of Cuestionario COE-Mujer a scale on entrepreneurial self-efficacy. In this study, younger women look at themselves as less skilled compared to people with more of 35 years and people with lower level of academic education perceive a minor entrepreneurial self-efficacy.