Exploring gender issues in entrepreneurship: what about students and recent graduates?

Abstract

Research on entrepreneurship is a relatively new area. Entrepreneurship is still poorly studied and has a low level of legitimacy in the emerging academic field as female entrepreneurship. Focusing research about entrepreneurship on the intersection of the constructs of individuals, opportunities, modes of organisation and the environment, will define the field and enhance its legitimacy. However, it has been carefully assessed in recent decades. Thus, this research aims to explore the literature on the barriers to practical entrepreneurship, to exemplify the factors that encourage and discourage a business start up and to establish to what extent there is a level playing field in female young entrepreneurship. The findings led us to theorise that the close connection between informal social networks and female entrepreneurship may represent a fundamental element to straighten female entrepreneurship attitude.

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