Does social innovation reduce the economic marginalization of women? insights from the case of italian solidarity purchasing groups

This paper explores the relationship between gender and social innovation to highlight the possible positive effects of women's participation in social innovation in terms of protection from economic marginalization. It focuses on Italian solidarity purchasing groups as a case of social innovat...

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Autor: Maestripieri, Lara|||0000-0003-4710-1653
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:181930
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/181930
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1080/19420676.2017.1364289
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Marginalization
Gender
Social innovation
Solidarity purchasing groups
Alternative food networks
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Sumario:This paper explores the relationship between gender and social innovation to highlight the possible positive effects of women's participation in social innovation in terms of protection from economic marginalization. It focuses on Italian solidarity purchasing groups as a case of social innovation in the domain of food and agriculture. The analysis is based on logistic regression using primary data collected in 2016 for the EU funded project CrESSI. The results show that participation in social innovation does protect households from worsening economic conditions. However, it was not empirically proven that there is a significant difference between men and women in the benefit enjoyed from the participation in solidarity purchasing groups.