Research articles on women’s entrepreneurship reveal, in spite of intentions to the contrary, and in spite of inconclusive research results, a tendency to recreate the idea of women as being secondary to men, and of women’s businesses being of less significance or, at best, as being a complement. Based on a discourse analysis, this article discusses what research practices cause these results. It suggests new research directions which do not reproduce women’s subordination, but capture more and richer aspects of women’s entrepreneurship.
Reproduced by permission of the author and Blackwell Publishing, Inc. First published in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2006, Vol. 30 (5), pp. 595–621.