Research project Entrepreneurship, gender and economic growth: challenges to feminist theory

Feminist theories are generally about interpreting and understanding how gender (social gender) is created and how subordination of women takes place. A feminist approach shows that entrepreneurship is male gendered and portrays entrepreneurial women as secondary and underperforming.

Entrepreneurship theory is generally gender-blind, which means that women as entrepreneurs are invisible and that women's (and men's) inventions and innovative business ideas are not included in policy and research.

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