Women’s Entrepreneurship in the Era of the Society of Information and Communication

Alejandra Arroyo Martínez Sotomayor
(Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana–Iztapalapa, México)

Abstract: Current worldwide crisis that started as an economic crisis has provoked significant changes in culture and in society in general transforming communities and bringing along changes in work patterns. In capitalist globalization relations between the enterprises, workers, and labor have been suffering changes due to the prevailing and globalized technological revolution where human labor is being replaced by new machines. In effect, we have come into the so called Society of Information and Knowledge which is restructuring social labor forms of organization as well as the ways of transmitting education and information that involves new forms of creating enterprises. Women introduce themselves within theses sceneries in front of the difficult situation they find as members of societies that discriminate them from full benefits of formal labor, creating enterprises and gaining empowerment. Entrepreneurship is reached by women through knowledge, information and support from formal institutions to achieve these new forms of enterprises creation, where their tacit and explicit knowledge are an asset in the subject.

Key words: globalization; information; knowledge; labour; entrepreneurship

JEL code: O31