Study Explores Women Entrepreneurs and Human Capital
May 5th, 2008 | By Dawn R. Rivers | Category: ResearchLast week, the SBA Office of Advocacy released the results of a new study on women entrepreneurs and how they stack up against their wage and salary counterparts in several measures of general and specific human capital. Basically, the study found that self-employed women are better educated, have more managerial experience, have more life experience (which is a euphemistic way of saying they tend to be older), and are more likely to have experience in non-traditional industry sectors. When the researchers compared self-employed women to self-employed men, they found that women had less managerial experience, worked fewer hours, made less money and were more likely to report that their firms were not their household’s primary source of income. All interesting in light of another piece of research, the Kauffman Entrepreneurial Index for 2007, which found that entrepreneurship rates among women declined last year while the rate for men increased significantly.
