MICROCRÉDITO E EMPREENDEDORIMO FEMININO: Programa Crediamigo e os empreendimentos femininos da Mesorregião do Alto Parnaíba Piauiense no período da pandemia

Abstract

The presence of women in the Brazilian labor market, as well as their participation in entrepreneurship, is quite notorious and demands a better understanding of the issues faced by them in the trajectory entrepreneur. Microcredit policies have become the driving tool for the development of socioeconomic and productive sector, including, for the most part, women in the context of activities microentrepreneurs. In this study, carried out with micro-entrepreneurs who are clients of the Crediamigo Program, in Mesoregion of Alto Parnaíba Piauiense, addresses the question of how female participation is presented, in front of Microcredit actions, in a pandemic period. This work has quantitative and qualitative approach, called a mixed approach as to its design, thus involving a combination of approaches. In this way, clustering is used as an analysis method (obtained through the R software version 4.1.2). The results obtained denote that the Crediamigo Program credit brought benefits to the majority of the requesting micro-entrepreneurs, as they obtained a return on the money invested, even in the face of adaptations to the pandemic period.