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International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences

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Multidimensionality of Women Entrepreneurs Empowerment: Empirical Evidence in Indonesia

Rois Arifin, Nuzunul Rachma

http://dx.doi.org/10.6007/IJARBSS/v8-i10/4767

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As a dynamic process that become a familiar and much used term, women’s empowerment has been quantified, measured, and described in a variety of ways. Social, financial, knowledge, and autonomy capability are built as women entrepreneurs’ empowerment dimension, in which improvement is supposed to lead to improvements in other dimensions. This study tries to bring women empowerment model in quantitative measure of capability scores on all these four dimensions. We collected data from 60 entrepreneur’s women in Malang. The main result of this study is social capability score is the main component of women empowerment among married women entrepreneurs. Findings also show that the relationships between these four dimensions of empowerment are moderate.

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In-Text Citation: (Arifin & Rachma, 2018)
To Cite this Article: Arifin, R., & Rachma, N. (2018). Multidimensionality of Women Entrepreneurs’ Empowerment: Empirical Evidence in Indonesia. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 8(10), 606–618.