Women in social entrepreneurship in Kazakhstan

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10.2991/978-94-6463-352-8_18How to use a DOI?

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social entrepreneurship; female entrepreneurs; women’s rights; gender equality

Abstract

The Institute of Social Entrepreneurship was legally regulated in the law system of the Republic of Kazakhstan in 2021. The state policy is aimed at ensuring entrepreneurs’ participation in creating solutions in the community, assisting in the employment of socially vulnerable segments of the population providing equality for all citizens. The state addresses certain vulnerabilities of some to ensure the protection of their rights. A Kazakhstani social entrepreneur who launched an online store “Invamade” marketing items handmade by people with special needs and representatives of socially vulnerable groups proves the success of that policy. The advanced entrepreneur is aware of the problems of vulnerable people who might encounter challenges in accessing resources and tries to facilitate them by providing jobs and incomes. Particularly single mothers struggle to provide children with essential needs on the background of male dominance in more prestigious and profitable areas of construction, industry, and agriculture. Women have to be involved in lower-paid educational and social areas. Social enterprise fosters these women to reach financial independence, allowing them to combine their vulnerability with entrepreneurial activity. The article uses approaches of qualitative content analysis assessing women’s participation in social entrepreneurship to resolve the gap between local methods and those of developed countries. The study reveals that legal domestic regulation of social entrepreneurship does not contribute to the active participation of women compared with developed nations mainly due to low financial education, lack of leadership skills, insufficient state financing, and gender inequality. Legal mechanisms are proposed to stimulate the involvement of Kazakhstani women in social entrepreneurship.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Assel Ualiyeva
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/01/10
TI  - Women in social entrepreneurship in Kazakhstan
BT  - Proceedings of the 12th UUM International Legal Conference 2023 (UUMILC 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 234
EP  - 249
SN  - 2667-128X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-352-8_18
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-352-8_18
ID  - Ualiyeva2024
ER  -