SH – Alberta School of Business – University of Alberta

Policy priorities for gender and entrepreneurship

March 13, 2024

Read here about policy suggestions from an academic-practitioner collaboration for gender and entrepreneurship.

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Sex-based labour market segregation and women’s perceptions of entrepreneurship

February 2, 2024

Here Professors Tonoyan, Strohmeyer, and Jennings investigate sex-based labour market segregation and women's perceptions of entrepreneurship.

Note: Peer-reviewed academic articles from scholarly journals were selected on the ProQuest search engine platform. Articles with keywords appearing in their abstracts (ab) were extracted using the following parameters: ab (Gender OR Female OR Woman*) AND ab(Stereotype* OR Discriminate* OR Bias* ) AND ab (Entrepreneur* OR New Venture OR Founder OR Self-employed* )

The gender stereotyping of entrepreneurship

February 1, 2024

Professors Jennings and Tonoyan distill prior research and chart avenues for future research.

Factors that contribute to the gender gap in entrepreneurial self-confidence

September 25, 2023

A study by Professors Dempsey and Jennings offers key insights into why women tend to be less confident than men in their entrepreneurial ability.

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Exploring the entrepreneurial ability of women

February 6, 2023

Are women as under-confident in their entrepreneurial ability as we have been led to believe? Dr Jennifer E. Jennings from the University of Alberta investigates.

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