Gender differences in solo entrepreneurship in modern countries

• Iuliia Pinkovetskaia Ulyanovsk State University http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8224-9031
• Natalia Neif Ulyanovsk State Agrarian University named after P. A. Stolypin http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2758-6684
• Aleksandra Navasardyan Ulyanovsk State Agrarian University named after P. A. Stolypin http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0129-7099
• Tatyana Treskova Ulyanovsk State Agrarian University named after P. A. Stolypin http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7478-0095
• Marina Yashina Ulyanovsk State Agrarian University named after P. A. Stolypin http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7133-1793

DOI: https://doi.org/10.46925//rdluz.34.14

Keywords: Entrepreneurs, women, men, gender roles, self employed

Abstract

Aim of the study is to evaluate the indicators describing the level of solo entrepreneurship among women and men who are beginning entrepreneurs in different countries. Empirical data provided in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitoring Project for fifty-nine countries were used as initial information in calculations. Economic and mathematical modeling was based on development of density functions normal distribution. In the study, three indicators describing solo entrepreneurship in 59 countries were evaluated: share of solo entrepreneurs-women in the total number of women who participate in the creation of their own businesses in different countries; share of solo entrepreneurs-men in total number of men who participate in creation of their own businesses in different countries; ratio of the above-mentioned shares of solo entrepreneurs of women and men. Average values and ranges of changes in considered indicators were determined, which are typical for most countries. In addition, national economies that are characterized by high and low values of each of the three indicators were identified. The study showed that there is a gender gap in the values of indicators in most countries. It is proved that share of women involved in solo entrepreneurship in most countries is higher than that of men.

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