ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND FEMALE EMPOWERMENT IN YOUNG PEOPLE IN LIMA

The objective of this study was to establish the relationship that exists between entrepreneurship and female empowerment in young people in Lima. It was developed under the quantitative approach, with a non-experimental design, basic type and correlational level. The sample consisted of 132 young entrepreneurs with businesses in different fields located in Lima, aged between 18 and 29 years and with ventures up to 18 months after being created. The technique to collect the data was the survey and the instrument the questionnaire, which were validated by expert judgment, the reliability was examined with the Cronbach's Alpha coefficient through a pilot test on a sample with similar characteristics. The results indicate that a medium level was determined in the entrepreneurship variable with 56%, while female empowerment was located at the medium level with 61%. Concluding that there is a relationship between entrepreneurship and female empowerment, demonstrated with Spearman's Rho = 0.732 and p-value = 0.000 < 0.05, which means that increasing the level of entrepreneurship will increase the level of female empowerment in young women from Lime.