Women's social entrepreneurship, a new approach to integrate and support women workers in the Moroccan informal sector

Abstract

Following the serious consequences of the COVID 19 pandemic, the Moroccan informal sector has been endangered and the redefinition of priorities obliges the public authorities towards the necessity of reviving its workers. Social entrepreneurship, which has recently received particular attention from researchers, is proving to be the essential element of a new approach aimed at integrating workers in the informal sector in Morocco. This paper seeks to clarify the role of women's social entrepreneurship in improving the difficult social situations of informal workers and regularizing their employment. Therefore, this paper first seeks, to raise the various amalgams hindering the proper understanding of the concept of the informal sector and to provide the necessary clarifications. Secondly, to characterize social entrepreneurship and justify its role in the regularization of the informal sector. Finally, for this exploratory work, the confrontation with atypical empirical contexts led us to precede with a semi-structured interview with 10 women members of a women's cooperative in the province of CHICHAOUA- Morocco. This allowed us to justify concrete results and to shed light on women's social entrepreneurship as a new approach to the integration and support of informal women workers.