Mind the gender gap: the impact of university education on the entrepreneurial entry of female and male STEM graduates

Piva, Evila; Rovelli, Paola

doi:10.1007/s11187-021-00525-1

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“…This makes the inclusion in entrepreneurial activities of women in STEM who have experienced a mid-career break all the more meaningful. The gender gap in entrepreneurship among STEM graduates can have important drawbacks for the economic system, which is deprived of the added value that female entrepreneurs with STEM backgrounds can bring (Piva and Rovelli, 2021).…”

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“…Second, the existing studies on entrepreneurship among women with a STEM background are very few in number, and scholars have emphasised the need to expand our understanding of the entrepreneurial aspects among this segment of women (Barron and Ruiz, 2021;Piva and Rovelli, 2021;Kuschel et al, 2020). The studies on STEM women in developing economies are even more scarce in the literature and require more attention (Shrivastava, 2021).…”

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Assessing the “entrepreneurship as emancipation” perspective among women in STEM

Sharma

2022

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PurposeThe study examines the emancipatory potential of entrepreneurship for women in STEM who have experienced a mid-career break. As studies on this subject are rather scarce, it also makes an important contribution to the literature by providing key insights into the entrepreneurial journeys of women in STEM who have experienced a career break and have started their own enterprises. The findings could be used by governments to intervene in the identified areas of difficulty and to facilitate the entrepreneurial endeavours of women in order to bring this community back into the workforce.Design/methodology/approachThe study maps the entrepreneurial journeys of 23 women with a STEM background who turned into entrepreneurs after experiencing a career break. Qualitative data was collected through personal interviews with women entrepreneurs and was then analysed to interpret the results.FindingsWhile the study confirms the emancipatory potential of entrepreneurship among well-educated middle-class women with a STEM background who face constraints related to career advancement and work–life balance, it also provides insights on various aspects related to their entrepreneurial development. This includes aspects such as their motivation to start a business, major barriers they face in developing their businesses and the strategies they use to handle those barriers. Suggestions for policy development are also proposed.Originality/valueIn addition to studying the entrepreneurial aspect of a rather underexamined segment of women in STEM who have experienced a career break, the study also examines the scope of the emancipatory potential of entrepreneurship for this segment of women. To the best of our understanding, no such study on STEM women has been carried out in developing nations in spite of the fact that this segment of women forms an important techno-economic resource which remains largely underutilised in developing economies.

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Assessing the “entrepreneurship as emancipation” perspective among women in STEM

Sharma

2022

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“…Within the academic context, there is also a focus upon the potential of entrepreneurship education and training programmes to support AE. Piva and Rovelli (2022) establish that including management education reduces the STEM entrepreneurship gender gap. The wider literature indicates entrepreneurial education offerings are more effective if tailored for the specific industry or sector with such offerings found to be effective in increasing knowledge and understanding of commercialisation and developing entrepreneurial competences (Treanor et al ., 2021b).…”

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“…Quantitative studies either sought to identify the macro-, meso- or individual-level factors influencing, or that could be leveraged to promote, STEM women's entrepreneurial activity (Xie and Lv, 2018; Piva and Rovelli, 2022), or they explored the performance outcomes of STEM ventures having women owners or within the entrepreneurial team, in terms of financial returns and growth (Demartini, 2018), innovation (Dai et al. , 2019; Owalla et al.…”

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Gender, STEM women and entrepreneurship: a review and future research directions

Treanor

2022

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PurposeThis invited paper aims to explore current knowledge and recent trends within published management research to illustrate the development and contribution of research on this topic and to outline promising future research directions.Design/methodology/approachA systematic literature review of 34 articles between January 2018 and August 2022 has been undertaken, which reflects the increased scholarly attention, in recent years, upon the topic of women entrepreneurs in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).FindingsThis review highlights that this topic remains under-explored and that recent research tends to explore STEM women's entrepreneurial activity in different country contexts. The opportunity exists to advance theoretical understandings of how gender is operationalised within gendered contexts and places.Originality/valueThis paper reviews research to date and offers suggested avenues for further research.

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“…They prefer to opt for these professions just like fashion, knowing their self-capabilities. Further, the impact of society, religion, and culture is noticeable too, and gender differences exist in every society (Piva & Rovelli, 2021). It is more difficult for women to make free decisions regarding their careers, particularly in male-dominated societies (Turnbull et al, 2020;Hamid, 2020).…”

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The Mediating Role of Competitiveness Between Entrepreneurial Challenges and Willingness of Female Business Graduates

Parmar¹,

Ahmed²,

Štreimikienė³

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JOC

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This research examines the challenges of female business graduate entrepreneurs; we have developed a modified conceptual framework in which willingness to become an entrepreneur has been taken as a dependent variable. However, financial, cultural, marketing, and technological challenges are independent variables. Additionally, we incorporated competitiveness as a mediation variable between independent and dependent variables. The competitiveness could be beneficial to the female business graduates’ entrepreneurs and might be reduced by their financial, marketing, cultural, and technological challenges. The data was collected through a modified structured questionnaire from the entrepreneurs of female business graduates. The information was collected from Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka; we have collected 386 responses for the period from February 2021 to July 2021. We employed a structural equation modelingbased (SEM-based) multivariate approach and conditional process modeling for the data analysis. The findings of this research exhibit that the financial challenges, cultural challenges, marketing challenges, and technological challenges have a significant negative impact on female business entrepreneurs. These are the constraints that restrict female business graduates’ entrepreneurial opportunities. On the other hand, the mediation analysis showed that competitiveness has a positive and significant impact between financial challenges, cultural challenges, marketing challenges, & technological challenges, and willingness to become an entrepreneur. The perfect mediation of competitiveness established that the business success of SMEs does not rely on the individuals’ competencies and success factors only, but organizational competitiveness is equally essential for organizational performance.

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Mind the gender gap: the impact of university education on the entrepreneurial entry of female and male STEM graduates

Cited by 26 publications

References 94 publications

Assessing the “entrepreneurship as emancipation” perspective among women in STEM

Assessing the “entrepreneurship as emancipation” perspective among women in STEM

Gender, STEM women and entrepreneurship: a review and future research directions

The Mediating Role of Competitiveness Between Entrepreneurial Challenges and Willingness of Female Business Graduates

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