The SBA Advocacy funded paper "Are Male and Female Entrepreneurs Really That Different?," by Erin Kepler and Scott Shane finds that gender does not affect new venture performance when other factors are controlled for. However, several factors -- differing expectations, reasons for starting a business, motivations, opportunities sought and types of businesses -- vary between the genders, and these result in differing outcomes. Such observations should be taken into account when comparing the outcomes of ventures across genders.The data used for the study was from the Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics (PSED) focusing on businesses started in 1998 and 1999.
A full copy of this report is available at here (immediate download of a PDF file).
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I saw a recent feature on www.julib.com about MakeMineAMillion.org. It's a female entrepreneur program from the same creator of Take Your Daughter to Work Day. Pretty cool! I think this is timely with the release of this report.
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