Exploring gender issues in entrepreneurship:what about students and recent graduates?

Research on entrepreneurship is a relatively new area.

Entrepreneurship is still poorly studied and has a low level of legitimacy in the

emerging academic field as female entrepreneurship. Focusing research about

entrepreneurship on the intersection of the constructs of individuals,

opportunities, modes of organisation and the environment, will define the field

and enhance its legitimacy. However, it has been carefully assessed in recent

decades. Thus, this research aims to explore the literature on the barriers to

practical entrepreneurship, to exemplify the factors that encourage and

discourage a business start up and to establish to what extent there is a level

playing field in female young entrepreneurship. The findings led us to theorise

that the close connection between informal social networks and female

entrepreneurship may represent a fundamental element to straighten female

entrepreneurship attitude.