Investigation on the Drivers of Women Millennials Entrepreneurs Participation: Evidence from Indonesia

DOI

10.2991/aebmr.k.210522.006How to use a DOI?

Keywords

women entrepreneurs, empowerment, equality, ICT

Abstract

Indonesia is a patriarchal culture as a social system that placed men in a dominant position compared to women is crystal clear from the private life to business matters, especially in the business area that is closely related to technology acquisition or ICT. On the other hand, ICT serves as a support structure for all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to boost decent work and economic growth to eradicate poverty, hunger, health problem, and also to increase the performance of the industry, innovation, and infrastructure to create a sustainable life. Women entrepreneurs contribute significantly to economic development because the number of companies owned by women increases by 8% per year. Therefore, investigation on the drivers of active participation of millennial women entrepreneurs in Indonesia is an urgent matter. The research is conducted on 306 young women entrepreneurs systematically using the purposive sampling technique. This research data is analyzed using partial least square (PLS)—a structural equation modeling (SEM) technique. The study has shown that entrepreneurship empowerment strongly affects women’s intention to participate in entrepreneurship. The ICT skills have opened up opportunities to free themselves from the confines of in capabilities. Finally, this paper performed all hypothesis have significant relationship and positively related to women entrepreneurs participation.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Agustina Fitrianingrum
AU  - Roro Mega Cahyaning ‘Azmi Riyandani
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/05/25
TI  - Investigation on the Drivers of Women Millennials Entrepreneurs Participation: Evidence from Indonesia
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Business and Engineering Management (ICONBEM 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 34
EP  - 42
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.210522.006
DO  - 10.2991/aebmr.k.210522.006
ID  - Fitrianingrum2021
ER  -