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Starting one’s own business has become an increasingly popular career choice in transition economies (Amorós and Bosma, 2014; Kuratko, 2005), given the institutional push for business innovation and job creation (Bruton et al., 2008), need and desire to improve one’s life quality and well-being (Moore, 2000), decreasing stability in paid employment (Sweet and Meiksins, 2008), rapid diffusion of information technology (Tzeng et al., 2010), and growing individual needs for personal fulfillment and development through work (Sullivan and Baruch, 2009). Nevertheless, the dominant entrepreneurial career model and its evaluation criteria are still disproportionally associated with masculinity (e.g., entrepreneurial career values, ambitions, competition, independence, and assertiveness in actions; for overviews, see Ahl, 2006; Lewis, 2006), which has rendered women’s status secondary and disadvantaged in the global entrepreneurial scene (Gupta and Turban, 2009; Hughes et al., 2012).
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Long, Z. (2015). Privileging Women’s Voices and Experiences: A Career Perspective to Study Female Entrepreneurship in Transition Economies. In: Ramadani, V., Gërguri-Rashiti, S., Fayolle, A. (eds) Female Entrepreneurship in Transition Economies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137444516_7
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