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What Hinders Me from Moving Ahead? Gender Identity’s Impact on Women’s Entrepreneurial Intention

In: Exploring Gender at Work

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  • Eleftheria Egel

    (Female Entrepreneurship Consultancy)

Abstract

Research on female innovation-driven entrepreneurialism demonstrates that the number of start-ups by women worldwide still lags that of their male counterparts. This is in part due to women’s lower level of entrepreneurial self-efficacy which impacts negatively their entrepreneurial intention. This study uses the concept of multiple identities seen from a psychodynamic perspective, to explore theoretically how female entrepreneurs’ identity affects their entrepreneurial self-efficacy. First, I look into female entrepreneurs’ identity as part of their multiple identities situated within their self-concept. Second, I use Bourdieu’s androgenic cosmology to look into gender identity’s impact on women’s entrepreneurial identity and its potential impact on women entrepreneurs’ self-efficacy and their intention to start a business. Finally, I offer the adoption of “metaxu” as an ontological concept on how women entrepreneurs can reconcile their multiple identities and bring their best at work.

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  • Eleftheria Egel, 2021. "What Hinders Me from Moving Ahead? Gender Identity’s Impact on Women’s Entrepreneurial Intention," Springer Books, in: Joan Marques (ed.), Exploring Gender at Work, chapter 0, pages 231-252, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-64319-5_13
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-64319-5_13
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