Maître de conférences, Laboratoire des Sciences de la Communication, des Arts et de la Culture (LSCAC), Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
With a view to economic growth that generates social well-being with an accessible, efficient and quality public service, the Ivorian government has adopted the State of Côte d’Ivoire has developed the Government’s Social Program 2019-2020 (PSGov 2019-2020). In its strategic axis 5 of this program aims to create the conditions for improving the well-being of populations in rural areas and to ensure food security. How to achieve this in the agricultural sector marked by the persistence of gender inequalities? The article proposes a systematic integration of gender in the agricultural sector in rural areas. The main objective of this study is to show the interest of taking gender into account in agricultural development projects in order to allow everyone, men and women, to enjoy the fruits of their labors in a fair and equitable manner. The hypothesis of this study is: the development of the rural world is ensured when inequalities between men and women are reduced considerably in the rural agricultural sector. As a methodology, the Gender approach, the product of a comparative analysis of the situation between men and women through a quantitative and qualitative method enhanced by documentary research, we identify the different characteristic elements of inequality gender in the agricultural sector in rural areas.
This study aims to analyze the effects of promoting women's entrepreneurship on the migration of enterprises created by women from the informal sector to the formal sector. In order to achieve women's empowerment, Côte d'Ivoire has placed the promotion of women's entrepreneurship at the heart of its development strategies. On the one hand, the literature review found that the promotion of women's entrepreneurship is hampered by the absence of an integrated communication strategy that serves as a compass for the government's promotional activities in synergy with those of other stakeholders. On the other hand, the promotion of women's entrepreneurship stumbles on structural, socio-cultural and behavioral barriers. At first, the structural barriers are materialized by the low access of women to the financial resources needed to start and consolidate the activities they undertake because of the high rate of poverty in Côte d'Ivoire. In a second, the socio-cultural analysis reveals that the structure of social gender roles encloses women in their function of social reproduction. The wife, wife and mother ensure the functioning of domestic life. Finally, in terms of behavior, women tend to self-exclude from entrepreneurship because they feel they do not have the skills to create and run a business. This negative self-image helps build and reinforce negative perception of one's abilities to drive a formal entrepreneurial project.