Entrepreneurship & Gender

Course number:2086

Credits:5

Date for course atart and stop:17 jan 2007--6 mar 2007

Aim:
Tackling entrepreneurship from a gender perspective, this course teaches students to understand the important role of gender structures in the context of entrepreneurship and venture creation.

Learning outcomes:
This course highlights entrepreneurship from a gender perspective. Entrepreneurship evolves from the interaction between individuals and structures in business and society. A central set of structures affecting entrepreneurship for both women and men are gender structures. It is more usual that women start companies in the service sector while men start companies in industrial manufacturing and high-tech industries and societal sectors are gender segregated. In current research, womens’ entrepreneurship is ‘invisible’ - masculine norms dominate entrepreneurship research and practice, and everything that deviate from these norms is usually seen as ‘strange’ or ‘uninteresting’. Since 30% of all new ventures are started and owned by women there is a need for theoretical and practical approaches that make womens entrepreneurship visible and even more successful.

Contents:In this course we study entrepreneurship at different levels; the entrepreneur, the enterprise and the environment. These levels are focused from two areas which are linked to each other. The first one is called entrepreneurship as a way of life for women where the gender perspective is used to understand how women experience their entrepreneurship and handle gender structures. The other area is the neglected part of entrepreneurship where the invisibility of women’s entrepreneurship is studied, for instance women’s position and role in family business.

Compulsory moments:
Schedule can be found on www.sses.se.

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Contact person:
Rasmus Rahm
Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship
Saltmätargatan 9:4tr

Phone +46 8 736 15 91
Email: Rasmus.rahm@sses.se

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