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Results suggest that women are significantly less likely to perceive themselves as able to be an entrepreneur and they hold themselves to a stricter standard of competence when compared to similarly situated men.
For a woman entrepreneur, the risks of starting and operating a business are increased by being in a male dominated arena, having few role models and lacking confidence in some business skills.
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Prachita Patil, Yogesh Deshpande 
20 Feb 2018
On the basis of this study, some suggestions are given to motivate and to enhance women to become a successful entrepreneur.
So, if women and entrepreneurship are two important factors for growth especially in developing countries, it is particularly noticeable to understand what factors mobilize or prevent them from starting new businesses.
Taking a deconstructive gaze on how an entrepreneur‐mentality discourse is gendered, reveals the gender sub‐text underpinning the practices of the scientific community that study women entrepreneurs and, in so doing, open a space to question them.
The main findings highlight that ‘fear of failure’ and ‘perceived capabilities’ are the most important socio-cultural factors on the probability of becoming a woman entrepreneur.
household income, knowing an entrepreneur, and country of origin) play a role in venture success for female entrepreneurs in developing countries.
Also, all the women work in very trying circumstances and thus display what can be described as a “daring entrepreneurship” drive.
Moreover, emphasis on the androgynous entrepreneur traits in forums at different levels of education, in entrepreneur training activities, will certainly increase the women entrepreneur intention if they perceive they have positively valued traits for entrepreneurship.,Selecting 31 items related with the entrepreneur person, this work tests empirically their gender categorization.
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Kiranjot Sidhu, Sukhjeet Kaur 
38 Citations
But to be a successful entrepreneur, women should process certain fundamental qualities beside the support of the family and government organizations.
The primary data would provide an understanding of the factors that induces success to the women entrepreneur.
further explain the gender puzzle, while, at the same time, it is clear that stereotypes of what makes the ideal entrepreneur must be revisited.
These results indicate that we are far from understanding the dynamics between being a woman entrepreneur and the gendered structures and practices.