THE CONCEPT OF CREATIVITY, GENDER INEQUALITY AND POSITION OF WOMEN INNOVATORS IN SLOVENIA

The article deals with an analysis of the concept of creativity in relation to the gender perspective, and focuses on the relationship between creativity and innovation by drawing attention to the women who work in Slovenia as independent innovators. In the first part of the text, I introduce the theory of the anthropologist Liepa, which establishes a parallel between creativity and inventorship, and I illuminate the concept of "improvisational creativity" presented by Hallam and Ingold. In the second part of the text, I introduce an analysis of the interviews made with the innovators and point out why the definition of creativity, which is connected to the relationship between innovation/technology, is unsuitable for conceptualising the position of women. The article addresses the concept of "improvisation" as an epistemological model through which we can reinterpret gender roles and relations in a positive and creative way.