Economic Empowerment among Rural Women Entrepreneurs in Piura—Peru: A Measurement Model

This chapter analyses the economic empowerment of rural women entrepreneurs, exploring its main determinants, in a rural area of Piura, in Peru. After a brief literature review, the chapter adopts a methodological approach to measure the economic empowerment based on scores, to then group the score values in two: high vs. low economic empowerment. A detailed description of the interviewed rural women highlights the key features of their social, economic, and managerial characteristics and problems. A logit model is estimated and the results identify that the number of children is negatively related to the economic empowerment, while education, age, and length of the marital relation are positively related to the economic empowerment of rural women entrepreneurs. Some policy inferences are explored.