Gender and Entrepreneurship as a Career Choice

By Sarah Thébaud. 2010

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Entrepreneurship as a career choice: The impact of locus of control on aspiring entrepreneurs' opportunity recognition (2019, background): “Consistent with previous studies, age (Lévesque & Minniti, 2006), gender (Thébaud, 2010), education (Schulz, Urbig, & Procher, 2016), job experience, and parenthood (Jack & Anderson, 2002) were controlled.”
Effects of role models and gender on students’ entrepreneurial intentions (2014, background): “This has been found to particularly be the case for careers which are seen as traditionally ‘male’ and thus for entrepreneurship (Thébaud, 2010).”
Failure or voluntary exit? Reassessing the female underperformance hypothesis (2015, background): “Indeed, risk attitudes playa signi ﬁ cant roleinthedecisionstobecomeandremainself-employed(Caliendoetal.,2009,2010;Raf ﬁ eeandFeng,2014) as entrepreneurs'earnings are much more volatile than those of employees with similarcharacteristics (Borjas and Bronars, 1989; Heaton and Lucas, 2000).”
Status Beliefs and the Spirit of Capitalism: Accounting for Gender Biases in Entrepreneurship and Innovation (2015, background): “…factors, such as gender differences in network resources, financial means, managerial experience, or perceptions about the abilities and risks involved in starting a business (Loscocco et al. 1991; Marlow and McAdam 2010; Minniti and Nardone 2007; Renzulli, Aldrich, and Moody 2000; Thébaud 2010).”
Men Set Their Own Cites High: Gender and Self-citation across Fields and over Time (2016, background): “Research consistently finds that women evaluate their own abilities more critically, despite evidence of equivalent performance (Correll 2001, 2004) as well as when operating in male-dominated domains (Cech et al. 2011; Thebaud 2010).”
Business as Plan B (2015, background): “Gender-differentiated perceptions about the activity of entrepreneurship can also contribute to gender gaps in the likelihood of being a business owner in the first place (Arenius and Minniti, 2005; Minniti and Nardone, 2007; Nielsen, Klyver, and Evald, 2010; Thébaud, 2010).”
A Growth Mindset Intervention: Enhancing Students’ Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy and Career Development (2020, background): “…self-efficacy and indirect effects on academic and career interest hold when controlling for other key predictors of career development including sociocultural (e.g., gender; Wilson et al., 2007), personal and family experience (Carr & Sequeira, 2007), and ability or knowledge (Thébaud, 2010).”
Advancing the Psychology of Entrepreneurship: A Review of the Psychological Literature and an Introduction (2016, background): “Thebaud (2010) Cross-sectional 15242 GEM data, general population Building on status characteristics theory, results show women were less often entrepreneurs, because they self-assessed their abilities lower.”
Gender Characterizations in Entrepreneurship: A Multi‐Level Investigation of Sex‐Role Stereotypes about High‐Growth, Commercial, and Social Entrepreneurs* (2018, background): “…such that entrepreneurs are usually described in masculine terms and feminine qualities are considered antithetical to an entrepreneur (ahl 2006; thébaud 2010). because people “take as gospel” their image of entrepreneurship and act accordingly *prior versions of this paper were presented at…”