24549: Gender Equality Paradoxes Among Entrepreneurs: Interactive Effects of Equality and Culture (session 26130)

Tuesday, July 29, 2025

08:30 - 10:00 CEST (GMT+2)

Location: Bella Center: Hall B- B3-m4

Session Type: Paper Session
Orientation: International,Research
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/jPdb6D

Author(s)

AG

Alexander Glosenberg

Loyola Marymount U., United States
DP

Duygu Phillips

U. of Delaware, United States
JP

Jeffrey M. Pollack

NC State U., United States
EO

Ernest O'Boyle

Indiana U., United States
JS

Joseph Richard Schaefer

SUNY New Paltz, United States

Gender-equality paradoxes – surprising findings of stronger discrepancies in outcomes between men and women in gender egalitarian contexts – remain contested across a variety of domains. To provide broad and novel insights into this debate, we explore gender paradoxes for entrepreneurs across a variety of industries and consider the role of cultural Individualism. We analyze the relationship of gender with entrepreneurs’ self-efficacy, goals, and success among 59,993 entrepreneurs across 85 countries. We find evidence for paradoxes in terms of self-efficacy and success, but not goals, more clearly in Individualistic countries, and in relation to political and health equality – but not economic equality. Our results help to resolve discrepant findings by highlighting the cultural nature of gender-equality paradoxes and their closer relationship with self-concept rather than explicit intentions.

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