Similarities and Differences between Women and Men Business Proprietorship
研究对比34名女性和35名男性选择成为企业主的原因，发现男女都为了逃避不满意的工作，但男性更看重赚钱，女性则对职业经历不满，有孩子的女性视创业为突破职业障碍的途径。
Stanley Cromie is senior lecturer in organisation theory at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland. The study was undertaken to add to the literature on the female entrepreneur by using a model of entrepreneurial choice to discover why 34 women and 35 men chose to become business proprietors. Results indicated that both men and avoid unsatisfying jobs. In contrast men were more interested in making money while women expressed dissatisfaction with their job histories. Women with children women saw entrepreneurship as a means of overcoming barriers to career advancement. Both genders were poorly prepared for the task of new business founding and neither men nor women were forced into proprietorship through labour market pressures.