Female Social Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship are relatively new topics that are becoming an increasingly important source of employment for women across many countries (Langowitz & Minniti, 2007). However, literature on social entrepreneurship is not as developed as the one for commercial entrepreneurship. Interestingly, there is almost no research linking perceptual variables and their influence on a person to become a social entrepreneur. Moreover, there is a gap in female social entrepreneurship literature. This paper strives to fill in the aforementioned gaps in literature as it investigates which perceptual variables are of influence on the likelihood of a woman to become a social entrepreneur, working with a sample of 49 countries used from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) database. The analysis should help shed some light on this new and exciting entrepreneurial environment, and should be especially useful to professionals in the field of Social Entrepreneurship.