Women entrepreneurship; A research on Denizli women's cooperatives

Women's cooperatives; They are organizations that contribute to increasing social awareness about the difficulties they face and the rights they have, while including women in the labor market in order to meet their economic needs. These organizations support women and help them live in a healthy, developed and safer environment in line with sustainable development goals, while also nurturing women's entrepreneurial spirit. Women's cooperatives support and shape the individual entrepreneurial tendencies of entrepreneurial women and offer; It is an important power that enables them to achieve their entrepreneurial goals with education, financial support, solidarity and social networks. Therefore, the aim of this study is; It aims to determine the entrepreneurship levels of women working in women's cooperatives. The population of the research consists of women entrepreneurs working in women's cooperatives operating in Denizli province. Survey technique was used in collecting the data used in the research. The analysis of the data was carried out with descriptive statistics, Mann-Whitney U and Kruskal-Wallis tests. As a result of the analysis, it was determined that the entrepreneurship levels of women entrepreneurs working in women's cooperatives were high. It was also determined that the entrepreneurship tendencies of women employees in women's cooperatives differed in terms of various demographic variables.