Understanding Feminism Perspective of Informal Women Entrepreneurs in Kyengera Town Council

Abstract

The process of marginalization and exclusion from intersectional and multilevel perspectives has much focus on intersectional of ethnic, gender and class background, which all vested in the feminism perspective of informal women entrepreneurs. The purpose of the essay was to examine the philosophical perspectives on informal women entrepreneurs in Uganda with a focus on how do epistemological experiences and perspectives influence informal businesses and what are the socio-cultural experiences of women entrepreneurs in Kyengera town council? The essay is found in the feminist standpoint epistemology and provides a strong basis for thinking through feminist concerns about entrepreneurship promotion, and to be the most useful for putting feminist theory into practice with a need to transform and empower the women. The essay was guided by a documentary-based review design using mixed methods, and data collected through on desk review from scholarly articles in the areas of women entrepreneurs, feminism, epistemology, philosophy, sociocultural, ethical theories and mixed methods. The essay indicates various philosophical descriptions of terms like marginalized women entrepreneurs, mixed methods and feminist epistemologies. Further, indicates epistemological experiences and perspectives, and socio-cultural experiences of informal women entrepreneurs in Kyengera Town Council. Conclusively, reviewed literature hypothesizes that mixed methods research is a clear postmodernism design for studies which involve philosophical and epistemological foundations. It is thus a good design compared to only qualitative or qualitative. Therefore, feminist researchers need a focus on mixed methods research which emphasizes both qualitative and quantitative approaches as means to address the knowledge, power and gender-gap among informal women entrepreneurs. Thus, to address the gender gap, feminist empiricism should suggest knowledge and science to constitute inclusion of women to eliminate male-biased ideologies. This would help the women entrepreneurs to be looked at as benefits to society needs, and not as exploits and value more for man. Keywords: Epistemology, feminism, informal women entrepreneurs, socio-cultural
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