Gender aspects of entrepreneurs’ motivation in modern countries

I.S. Pinkovetskaia; N.V. Berezina; A.A. Navasardyan; N.M. Neif

doi:10.34069/AI/2021.39.03.21

I.S. Pinkovetskaia Ulyanovsk State University, Ulyanovsk, Russia. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8224-9031
N.V. Berezina Chuvash State University, Cheboksary, Russia. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7320-3624
A.A. Navasardyan Ulyanovsk State Agrarian University named after P.A. Stolypin, Ulyanovsk, Russia. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0129-7099
N.M. Neif Ulyanovsk State Agrarian University named after P.A. Stolypin, Ulyanovsk, Russia. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2758-6684

DOI: https://doi.org/10.34069/AI/2021.39.03.21

Keywords: entrepreneurs, forced entrepreneurship, voluntary entrepreneurship, women, men, gender gap.

Abstract

Entrepreneurship plays an important role in both developed and developing countries. Therefore, an urgent problem is to study the motivation of starting entrepreneurs. The aim of the study is to measure indicators offering the levels of motivation (forced and voluntary) of men and women who want to create their own businesses in modern national economies. Our research is based on empirical data obtained from the 2019 Global Entrepreneurship Monitoring Project for 59 countries. The study proved that the share of the quantity of men voluntarily involved in the creation of new businesses in most countries is greater than the share of women in the total quantity of relevant gender strata. The average values of six indicators describing the motivation of women and men for the countries under consideration were determined; presented the difference of indicators by country; identified countries with maximum and minimum indicators.

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Author Biographies

I.S. Pinkovetskaia, Ulyanovsk State University, Ulyanovsk, Russia.

Economic analysis and state management Department, Ulyanovsk State University, Ulyanovsk, Russia.

N.V. Berezina, Chuvash State University, Cheboksary, Russia.

Finance, Credit and Economic Security Department, Chuvash State University, Cheboksary, Russia.

A.A. Navasardyan, Ulyanovsk State Agrarian University named after P.A. Stolypin, Ulyanovsk, Russia.

Economic Security, Accounting and Audit Department, Ulyanovsk State Agrarian University named after P.A. Stolypin, Ulyanovsk, Russia.

N.M. Neif, Ulyanovsk State Agrarian University named after P.A. Stolypin, Ulyanovsk, Russia.

Finance and Credit Department, Ulyanovsk State Agrarian University named after P.A. Stolypin, Ulyanovsk, Russia.

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