Forced to Play by the Rules? Theorizing how Mixed–Sex Founding Teams Benefit Women Entrepreneurs in Male–Dominated Contexts

Godwin, Lindsey N.; Stevens, Christopher E.; Brenner, Nurete

doi:10.1111/j.1540-6520.2006.00139.x

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“…Para eles, a formação e a educação de empresárias se apresentavam como uma alternativa consistente que poderia proporcionar a essas mulheres melhores condições não só de administrar uma empresa como também de torná-la mais competitiva. Tambunan (2007), na Indonésia, e Machado (2001) Para alguns autores, as redes contribuem positivamente para a criação e desenvolvimento de novos negócios (VALE, SERAFIM, TEODÓSIO, 2011;GODWIN, STEVENS, BRENNER, 2006;KLYVER, TERJESEN, 2007;WELTER et al, 2004). No entanto, estudos revelaram que a participação feminina em redes ainda é modesta, principalmente na fase inicial do negócio (KLYVER, TERJESEN, 2007), e que, além de elas preferirem resolver seus problemas empresariais utilizando as relações pessoais em vez da assistência das redes (WELTER et al, 2004), suas redes seriam baseadas, na maioria das vezes, na confiança (LOW, 2005 A relação entre trabalho e família, ou melhor, a busca de conciliação entre eles, também foi um tema investigado pela literatura especializada (STROBINO, TEIXEIRA, 2014;JONATHAN, SILVA, 2007;SHELTON, 2006;SILVA, 2006;LINDO et al, 2004;QUENTAL, WETZEL, 2002;UFUK, ÖZGEN, 2001).…”

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“…In addition, proposed solutions stay within the status quo and do not begin to challenge gender bias in the system directly. For example, entrepreneurship scholars have recently suggested that women founders should find males to be on their teams in order to have a better chance of receiving equity funding, rather than solving the bias in the equity financing ecosystem itself (Godwin et al, 2006). These "solutions" the field provides individual women do nothing to challenge the structural bias in the entrepreneurial institutions themselves.…”

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A Gender integrative conceptualization of entrepreneurship

Muntean

Özkazanç‐Pan²

2015

New England Journal of Entrepreneurship

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Guided by feminist perspectives, we critique existing approaches to the study of womenʼs entrepreneurship on epistemological grounds and suggest that the entrepreneurship field needs to recognize gendered assumptions in theorizing. Deploying a feminist framework, we suggest that understanding the “gender gap” in entrepreneurship requires focus on institutional and structural barriers women entrepreneurs face. Existing studies of women entrepreneurs often compare women with men without considering how gender and gender relations impact the very concepts and ideas of entrepreneurship. We propose, therefore, a conceptualization of entrepreneurship that illuminates gender bias and calls attention to the interrelated individual, institutional, and structural barriers in the entrepreneurial process that arrive out of societal and cultural gender norms. Through praxis or engaged practice, we redirect scholarship in the entrepreneurship field, while proposing ways that can promote gender equality in entrepreneurial activities. In all, our gender integrative conceptualization of entrepreneurship contributes to the entrepreneurship field by recognizing and addressing a more expansive realm of influential factors within the entrepreneurial ecosystem that have previously been researched separately.

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“…Although gender awareness has increasingly informed analyses of entrepreneurial behaviours since the 1990s, much of this work this has been framed comparatively (Eddleston & Powell, 2008;Godwin, Stevens, & Brenner, 2006). Embedded within this epistemology is an underlying presumption that men and women are fundamentally different and that such differences will be articulated as female deficiency.…”

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Exploring the dynamics of gender, feminism and entrepreneurship: advancing debate to escape a dead end?

2012

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Contrary to the neo-liberal thesis that entrepreneuring is an open and accessible endeavour where personal effort alone determines reward and status, it has been demonstrated that there is a persistent, but occluded, gender bias within the entrepreneurial discourse. Accordingly, women are positioned as lacking and incomplete men; however, despite calls to employ feminist theory as an analytical frame to demonstrate the reproduction of such subordination, there is scant evidence this has emerged. Within this article however, we respond to this call by demonstrating how post structural feminist analysis reveals the gendered assumptions informing entrepreneurship theory and so, embed prevailing hetero-normative assumptions. These assumptions limit the epistemological scope of contemporary research which positions women as failed or reluctant entrepreneurial subjects; as such, in the absence of feminist theorising these analyses remain descriptive rather than explanatory. Accordingly, the current entrepreneurial research agenda is in danger of reaching an epistemological dead end in the absence of a reflexive critical perspective to inform the idea of who can be and what might be an entrepreneur. Finally, we draw upon these arguments to reflect upon current approaches to theorising within the broader field of entrepreneurial enquiry.

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Forced to Play by the Rules? Theorizing how Mixed–Sex Founding Teams Benefit Women Entrepreneurs in Male–Dominated Contexts

Cited by 223 publications

References 82 publications

Empreendedorismo Feminino como Sujeito de Pesquisa

Empreendedorismo Feminino como Sujeito de Pesquisa

A Gender integrative conceptualization of entrepreneurship

Exploring the dynamics of gender, feminism and entrepreneurship: advancing debate to escape a dead end?

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