Brazilian entrepreneur: integrative review of publications about the profile of the female brazilian entrepreneur

Resumo

Considering the current unequal labor relations according to gender, entrepreneurship is becoming an alternative as a source of income to women. A great number of women end up choosing to engage in a business, due to the lack of formal job opportunities. From this perspective, this paper presents an integrative review of the literature, using the databases ProQuest, Web of Science, and EBSCO. The following keywords were reported: Brazilian entrepreneurs, women entrepreneurs in Brazil, female entrepreneurship in Brazil, as well as their correlated versions in Portuguese. There were 40 articles selected, which contained some sort of description about the sociodemographic and economic profile of the participating women. Individual aspects such as marital status, number of children, race, level of education, social class, and age were not sufficiently explored by the academic literature. In addition, 30 articles were from Management or Business areas, illustrating the lack of studies from Psychology on this theme. Furthermore, just 8 papers were published in English. These features were considered determinant factors to comprehend the reality of entrepreneurial women and should be better explored by future studies looking for a more pragmatic analysis of female entrepreneurship in the Brazilian scenario.