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3 - Understanding Gender and Inclusion in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 October 2021

Banu Ozkazanc-Pan  and
Susan Clark Muntean
Banu Ozkazanc-Pan
Affiliation:
Brown University, Rhode Island
Susan Clark Muntean
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina, Asheville
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Summary

The third chapter focuses explicitly on the relevance of gender for entrepreneurial ecosystems. The chapter first discusses the differences between sex, gender, and gender relations to lay the foundation for a dynamic understanding of actors and entrepreneurial ecosystems. Guided by feminist perspectives in entrepreneurship and sociology the chapter provides theoretical insights, derived from the various ways in which gender is studied, on how gender can be conceptualized and how inclusion is a multifaceted concept and practice. The chapter then offers a guiding definition of gender inclusion in relation to entrepreneurial ecosystems and moves on to provide insights about how to study it in relation to individuals, organizations, and sociocultural norms at the same time. In doing so, this chapter provides a multifactor and multilevel gender framework for understanding economic inclusion in relation to entrepreneurial ecosystems.

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genderfeminismsexrelationaldiscourseinequalityidentity
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Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
A Gender Perspective
 , pp. 62 - 97
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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