Can Entrepreneurship Education Reduce Stereotypes against Women Entrepreneurship?

Autor/in	Türko, Esra Sena
Titel	Can Entrepreneurship Education Reduce Stereotypes against Women Entrepreneurship?
Quelle	In: International Education Studies, 9 (2016) 11, S.53-65 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1913-9020
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Females; Sex Stereotypes; Entrepreneurship; Barriers; Social Influences; Questionnaires; Comparative Analysis; Attitude Measures; Hypothesis Testing; Control Groups; Experimental Groups; Nonparametric Statistics; Statistical Analysis; Social Attitudes; College Students; Turkey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Weibliches Geschlecht; Unternehmungsgeist; Sozialer Einfluss; Fragebogen; Hypothesenprüfung; Hypothesentest; Statistische Analyse; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Collegestudent; Türkei
Abstract	The aim of this study is to investigate whether entrepreneurship trainings can reduce stereotypes against women entrepreneurship. With this aim socio-psychological obstacles to women entrepreneurship in Turkey are examined, and an experimental study is carried out. Entrepreneurship courses were given with a special emphasis on women entrepreneurship and gender issues. To evaluate the outputs of the experimental study, a questionnaire was designed and applied to students. In order to make a comparison, the same questionnaire was applied to students from two other universities, who have taken entrepreneurship courses through the classical method and curricula. The survey tool includes 21 statements on women entrepreneurship, 5 positive, and 16 negative. A non-parametric Mann-Whitney U test was conducted to evaluate the hypothesis that the experimental group would score lower in negative statements and higher in positive statements, on the average, than the non-experimental group. Test results indicate that mean ranks for the two groups differ significantly from each other in 12 items (p < 0.05). The experimental group scored significantly higher than the non-experimental group in 4 positive and 1 negative statements; and lower than the non-experimental group in 7 negative statements. Compared to the non-experimental group, the experimental group seems to have higher scoring for awareness and advocacy of women entrepreneurship and lower scoring for socio-psychological obstacles against women entrepreneurship. According to the survey results, it can be concluded that modification of entrepreneurship education curricula will contribute to reduce stereotypes hindering women entrepreneurship. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01