Females are more likely to sacrifice time for themselves and their social lives for their companies, whereas men are more likely to spend time with their partner and time with their kids. Women are also more likely to hire their kids, while 27% of men said that it would be better if their kids did not perform for their business.
Men and women come to entrepreneurship, from very different educational & business experience background. For men the choice to start a company seems to follow a logical progression, but it does not appear to do the same for females. The regular path into entrepreneurship was to replicate a company of which the man had prior knowledge, in both technological and managing conditions, as an employee of someone else; for the women example, this was almost unknown”.
Female entrepreneurs might be out doing men when it comes to running successful companies.
Male owners are more likely to start a company to earn money. They also spend more time on their new projects, have higher objectives for their company, and do more research to identify business opportunities.Sometimes this works, and sometimes it doesn’t.
Male business owners seek investors much more often than females. Many feel this is due to a man’s affinity for technically intense companies, and companies that have a wide regional client base. Female entrepreneurs and their supporters say some females want financing, but can’t readily get it because of discrimination by banks and venture capitalists.
Women’s are facing more difficulty than men while assigning tasks. They are used to doing everything themselves and thus sometimes will spread themselves too thin trying to keep up their company and do their housework simultaneously. A man might hire a housekeeper without guilt. Guilt seems to be a woman’s nemesis!
Confidence in Planning Capabilities Because of how men and women are socialized, females have ‘abnormal’ amounts of career-related self-efficacy than men, particularly in professions that are seen as traditionally men. 27 Because running a company has been considered a typical “male” profession, female entrepreneurs are believed to have less confidence in their business abilities than men entrepreneurs. As a result, they are less likely to believe that they can undertake the key in organizing a new project, such as obtaining start-up and funds and gaining customers.
Risk Preferences Research in sociology and psychology shows that females are risk averse than men across a wide range of settings. 28 Women display higher financial threat aversion than men29. Some studies suggest that this higher threat aversion carries over to females entrepreneurs. Actually, one study shows that a convenient example of female entrepreneurs has a lower risk propensity.
