Barriers to women entrepreneurship. Different methods, different results?

Tur-Porcar, Ana; Mas‐Tur, Alicia; Belso, José Antonio

doi:10.1007/s11135-016-0343-0

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“…In line with the previous literature [8][9][10][11], our study confirms that women find it more difficult to be promoted to high managerial positions. On the contrary, being a man turns out to be almost a guarantee of eluding low managerial positions.…”

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Analysing the Impact of the Glass Ceiling in a Managerial Career: The Case of Spain

2021

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The need to break down the barriers facing women in the labour market arouses great interest for reasons of social and sustainability justice. This study breaks new ground on the topic of the “glass ceiling” by assessing the evolution of gender inequality in the proportion of individuals reaching high managerial positions. The application of the csQCA method to a survey of two cohorts of Spanish graduates in management sharing the same starting conditions reveals two factors: job variety and additional education, as conditions that are usually present in a successful managerial career. Our findings confirm the prevalence of the gender gap with little progress in recent years. Women find it more difficult to promote to high managerial positions whereas being a man turns out to almost be a guarantee for eluding low managerial positions. In the context of Spain, and for sure in most other countries, the few women attaining high managerial positions still need to make a greater effort in their professional career than their male counterparts.

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confidence: 92%

“…Secondly, we have identified two remarkable factors linked to success, regardless of gender. Thirdly, similar to other recent studies, we confirm the prevalence of a gender gap [8][9][10][11]. In addition, we reveal the evolution over a 10-year period and display the factors behind these changes.…”

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Analysing the Impact of the Glass Ceiling in a Managerial Career: The Case of Spain

2021

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“…It has also been also seen that although entrepreneurship is becoming an increasingly important source of employment for women across many countries, the level of female involvement in entrepreneurial activity, however, is still significantly lower than that of men (Langowitz & Minniti, 2007;Tur-Porcar et al 2017;Ribes-Giner et al 2018). Although there are a small number of studies dealing with women and wellbeing (Iezzi and Deriu, 2014;Castellano et al 2017), the relationship between female entrepreneurship and wellbeing is not being analysed in depth yet.…”

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Wellbeing indicators affecting female entrepreneurship in OECD countries

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The objective of this research is to know which wellbeing indicators, such as work-life balance, educational level, income or job security, are related to the rate of female entrepreneurship in 29 OECD countries. In addition, these countries have been classified according to the motivation of the entrepreneur either by necessity or by opportunity. The empiric study is focused on 29 OECD countries covering the different geographic areas (Western Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East, etc.) Due to the fact that the sample is relatively small, it is essential to use a selective approach when selecting the causal conditions. To this end, fsQCA is the most appropriate methodology for such a small data set. A total of 5 variables have been used: an independent variable (female TEA ratio), and four dependent variables (work life balance, educational level, sustainable household income and job security). Data measuring female TEA ratio have been obtained from Global Entrepreneur Monitor (GEM, 2015) data base, while data measuring wellbeing dimensions were taken from the Better Life Index (OECD, 2015). The results of this piece of research show that countries with high sustainable household income together with high level of education achieves high female entrepreneurship ratio with both, a good work-life balance (despite of a high unemployment probability), or a high labour-personal imbalance (in this latter, with a low probability of unemployment).

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“…Beyond everyday organizing challenges, they tend to face the incipient pressure of striking a balance between their social gender roles and improving their overall entrepreneurial career quality (Sorgner, 2015;DeMartino et al, 2006). These enduring challenges have triggered revisions in female entrepreneurial career constructions (Rocha and Van Praag, 2020;Braches and Elliott, 2017), because, as boundaryless as they may be, they tend to unfold differently owing to the sociocultural peculiarities they must navigate when starting, growing and scaling their ventures (Tur-Porcar et al, 2017;Duberley and Carrigan, 2013). In this regard, some studies have refocused attention to exploring female entrepreneurial careers as embodied by a unique set of experiences which cumulatively shape the female entrepreneurial approach (Santos et al, 2016;Reaves, 2008).…”

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Careers of commercially successful female entrepreneurs in context of underdeveloped markets and weak institutions

Sarpong

Nyuur

Torbor

2021

IJEBR

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PurposeCareers have come to dominate contemporary discourse on gendered entrepreneurship. This paper aims to explore entrepreneurial careers as recounted by commercially successful female entrepreneurs to examine how they strategize to construct desirable careers in contexts characterized by underdeveloped markets and weak institutions.Design/methodology/approachUsing a qualitative research design, data for our inquiry come from publicly available life history accounts of 20 female entrepreneurs appearing on an enterprise focus television show in Nigeria. The authors supplemented the television interview data with archival data in the form of publicly available digital footprints of the entrepreneurs collected from their company websites, magazines, online newspapers featuring these entrepreneurs and their social media pages such as LinkedIn, Wikipedia, Facebook and Instagram.FindingsThe careers of female entrepreneurs operating in context of underdeveloped institution and markets, the authors found, are characterized by four heterogeneous ingrained dispositions and actions reflecting how they got in and got on with their entrepreneurial careers: (1) “Observing and playing business,” (2) traipsing the “path less traveled,” (3) a hook to the “Pierian spring” of entrepreneurship and (4) “Grace under pressure” in decision-making.Originality/valueThe authors contribute to the entrepreneurship literature by providing insight into the lived experiences, agency and careers of commercially successful female entrepreneurs as played out in the form of a contextual practice of “wayfinding” to starting up and managing their own business ventures.

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Barriers to women entrepreneurship. Different methods, different results?

Cited by 20 publications

References 44 publications

Analysing the Impact of the Glass Ceiling in a Managerial Career: The Case of Spain

Analysing the Impact of the Glass Ceiling in a Managerial Career: The Case of Spain

Wellbeing indicators affecting female entrepreneurship in OECD countries

Careers of commercially successful female entrepreneurs in context of underdeveloped markets and weak institutions

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