Assessing The Environment: Conditions For Female Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship researchers and public policy analysts have promoted governmental programs as a means of increasing business creation activity and success rates. This review suggests that attitudes toward and by women may be the single most important factor in the propensity and sustainability of new enterprise creation by women. Rather than create programs specifically targeted to new business development, local governments would be wise to focus on their general education efforts in order to provide broad-based employment opportunities and to broaden people’s societal perspectives.