Women And Men In Entrepreneurship

Silvia Popescu ()
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Silvia Popescu: Associate Professor, Ph.D, Economics Faculty ” Titu Maiorescu ” University, Postdoctoral researcher, Faculty of Management and Business, University of Bucharest, Romania

Journal of Knowledge Management, Economics and Information Technology, 2012, vol. 2, issue 4, 9

Abstract: This paper of female entrepreneurship has been inspired by gender equality issues. Today research and policy have been more and more fuelled by the idea that female entrepreneurs are important for economic progress. Female entrepreneurs were assumed to experience gender-related discrimination and to experience more difficulties when starting up and running a business than their male counterparts. Even when issues such as barriers and obstacles to female entrepreneurs are raised in the gender and entrepreneurship debate, this is usually done from the perspective that female entrepreneurs are an untapped resource and have potential to contribute to a country’s economic performance. Indeed, although gender equality is one of the arguments underlying the support for female entrepreneurs within the European Union, the argument that female entrepreneurs (have the potential to)contribute to economic performance continues to play a role here. The global growth of female entrepreneurship in the last decades has been accompanied by an increase in the number of studies on female entrepreneurship.

Date: 2012
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