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The dearth of feminist empirical research on women’s active participation in the ICT sector: Critical reflections for feminist scholars

Critical reflections for feminist scholars

Naledi Sekeleni
University of Limpopo
Carol Lesame
University of Limpopo
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The dearth of feminist empirical research on women’s active participation in the ICT sector: Critical reflections for feminist scholars. (2022). Communicare: Journal for Communication Studies in Africa, 36(2), 38-54. https://doi.org/10.36615/jcsa.v36i2.1568
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Abstract

This paper seeks to create awareness of the need for research academics and practitioners
involved in the ICT field collaborate in co-producing feminist empirical research studies that
integrate theory and practice (evidence-based) when doing research on the circumstance
related to women’s entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship in the context of the Eastern Cape
Province in South Africa, which is under scrutiny. The notion of cross-professional collaboration is
triggered by recommendations extrapolated from a qualitative case study conducted on the ICT
sector in the Eastern Cape, wherein the findings allude to a gap in empirical research studies
employing feminist epistemological and methodological norms of inquiry in examining women’s
entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial activities. This paper advances the view that initiating a
trend within the researcher community, where follow-up studies are conducted from research
recommendations, will stimulate reflection and debate around empirically grounded feminist
scholarship in an emerging and unexplored field of research, namely women’s entrepreneurship
and intrapreneurship, in both urban and rural settings of the ICT sector.

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