International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship: Volume 7 Issue 3

Gender perspectives on university education and entrepreneurship: A conceptual overview

Silke Tegtmeier, Jay Mitra

The purpose of this paper is to direct attention to recent research on women’s entrepreneurship with a focus on university education. A literature review and a summary of authors’…

Entrepreneurial aspirations and start-up motives of women chemists in Germany

Ute Pascher, Melanie Roski, Brigitte Halbfas

The purpose of this paper is to promote better understanding of different women entrepreneurs and self-employed women with regard to their educational level and field of study…

Self-employment and field of education understood from current entrepreneurship research

Caroline Berggren, Anders Olofsson

– The purpose of this paper is to look at how results from a large-scale study can be understood in the context of contemporary gender and entrepreneurship research.

“You would expect the successful person to be the man”: Gendered symbolic violence in UK HE entrepreneurship education

Sally Jones

This paper aims to to explore power and legitimacy in the entrepreneurship education classroom by using Pierre Bourdieu’s sociological and educational theories. It highlights the…

Education and training benefiting a career as entrepreneur: Gender gaps and gendered competencies and benefits

Maryam Cheraghi, Thomas Schøtt

The purpose of this study is to account for gender gaps owing to a lack of education and training. Gender gaps pervade human activity. But little is known about forces reshaping…

Transforming Institutions by Gendering Contents and Gaining Equality in Research (TRIGGER)

Helen Lawton Smith, Viviana Meschitti