Comparing the entrepreneurial intention between female and male engineering students

Comparing the entrepreneurial intention between female and male engineering students

• Lo, Choitung Dept. of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, City University of Hong Kong
• Law, Kris Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Journal of Women's Entrepreneurship and Education, (1), 28-51, 2012

Institut Ekonomskih Nauka

2012

• B Human Behaviour
  • BB Interests, Attitudes & Values
• A Human Growth & Development
  • AJ Sexual Difference, Bisexual Educational Difference, Sexism in Education
• G Curriculum, Teaching & Learning: Specific Disciplines
  • GE Social Sciences, Business & Law

Business and Economics Entrepreneurship Education Engineering Schools Women Owned Businesses Gender Differences Occupational Choice Behavior College Students Correlation Analysis Small Business Asia & The Pacific Schools and Educational Services

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Post-Secondary Education

Women business ownership contributes to entrepreneurship quality and diversity. However, the new venture creation rate of females lags far behind that of males. How to increase female entrepreneurship by entrepreneurship education is an important topic in the field. It has been reported that students' entrepreneurial intention is a key to their future entrepreneurial behaviors. This paper aims to empirically compare the entrepreneurial intentions between female and male engineering students with the exertion of entrepreneurship education. The Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) was used as the theoretical basis of this study. A total of 411 engineering students from three universities in Hong Kong, 303 males and 108 females, were involved in this study. The results show that TPB is appropriate to explain entrepreneurial intention of both female and male students. Further, male and female students are different in terms of entrepreneurial attitudes, social norms and entrepreneurial intentions even they experienced entrepreneurial education. This study suggests that teaching strategies to foster entrepreneurial intention of females should (1) emphasize female entrepreneurship, 2) provide female entrepreneurial models, and (3) create an entrepreneurial culture in campus.
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