An investigation into obstacles to entrepreneurship among educated women

Subject Areas : Creativity and innovation from psychological, epistemological, educational and pedagogical

Ali Rabiee ¹ , Zahra Nazarian ²

1 - نویسنده مسئول
2 - نویسنده

Received: 2016-07-05 Accepted : 2016-07-05 Published : 2013-03-21

Keywords: Iran, entrepreneurship, barriers, challenges, entrepreneur women,

Abstract :

  Background: In recent years, the entry of women into higher education has grown. In these circumstances, encourage entrepreneurship among women graduates in the country to establish independent businesses can play an important role. Purpose: This research is an applied study, and the nature of the study is descriptive and survey; and has been done to identify the main barriers that women entrepreneurs educated in Iran. Method: Beginning through exploratory interviews with 20 experts identified major barriers and then designed Likert questionnaire included 36 questions. The population consisted of 30 women who were educated and 80 faculty members are experts. Friedman test was used for subsequent data analysis Result (s): The analysis of the data showed that individual barriers and cultural barriers are important to women's entrepreneurship. Also, gender discrimination in the workplace, fear of failure, conjunction corporate affairs and family issues, inconsistency role expectations, bureaucracy and provide initial capital and liquidity requirements are the main causes. Conclusion: Due to the growing women with tertiary education, special attention should be given to these individuals to meet the challenges of entrepreneurship.