This study adapts a multi-level view of culture, including society-and family-based gender
norms and the family embeddedness perspective, to predict the career status of a sample of …

This article theorizes and evaluates the relationship between inflexible organizational
practices, family factors, and gendered pathways into entrepreneurship. Using novel survey …

Recent work suggests that both self-employed women and men represent a heterogeneous
group with regard to their occupational profile. For instance, in the US and Southern Europe …

This dissertation addresses the puzzle of why men are approximately two times more likely
than women to be business owners in most industrialized nations after accounting for …

This article develops and empirically evaluates an institutional theory of gender inequalities
in business start-up, ownership, and growth orientation. I argue that in contexts in which …

The promise of small business ownership as a route to equality has yet to be realized. The
authors draw from social construction perspectives and a detailed data set to model directly …

In virtually all industrialized countries, women are underrepresented in entrepreneurship,
and the gender gap exhibits a remarkable persistence. We examine one particular source of …

Within the phenomenon of entrepreneurship, the extant literature suggests that the
normative actor is embodied by and through stereotypical masculinized characteristics. In …

The need to resolve work–family conflict has long been considered a central motive for
women's pursuit of entrepreneurship. In this paper, we propose and empirically uncover a …

Gender differences at five levels of entrepreneurial engagement are explained using country
effects while controlling for individual-level variables. We distinguish between individuals …