Resumen de Personal and social factors that influence female entrepreneurship in Mexico
The increase in the number of businesses started by women around the world, has led to greater demand for qualitative and quantitative research on the topic of women's entrepreneurship. In Mexico there has begun to be important advances in the understanding of this phenomenon.
The aim of this work is to increase the literature on this topic by analyzing the personal and social factors that influence the likelihood for women become entrepreneurs in Mexico using logistic regression models with data from the Global Entrepreneurship Report from Mexico (GEM). The results show that personal factors (perceived skills and less fear of failure) and social factors (rate of informal investment and entrepreneurs access to social networks) have a positive effect on the probability that women become entrepreneurial while that factors (perception of opportunity, level of education, positive attention from the media towards entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship association with high social status) do not show to have any influence.
