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Gender is relevant in the context of social entrepreneurship because women are key to poverty reduction strategies, given how their poverty or empowerment affects communities. Economically active women benefit communities and have the means to engage in social entrepreneurship. In Africa social entrepreneurship research includes the role of social enterprise in filling institutional voids, lifting communities from poverty, meeting social needs arising from disease and post-conflict situations and linking commercial and not for profit mechanisms in hybrid organisations. Social entrepreneurship overlaps with female entrepreneurship because women’s other-centric initiatives and concern with improving others’ lives, enables them to be called hybrid social entrepreneurs. Collaboration by institutions and women entrepreneurs would strategically direct and enhance their other-centric efforts and impact on community for greater socio-economic development.
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Boateng, A. (2018). Social Entrepreneurship and the Possible Intersect with Female Entrepreneurship. In: African Female Entrepreneurship. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65846-9_4
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