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This article reviews the entrepreneurship and its connection with the third Millennium Development Coal, Gender equality and the empowerment of women, with particular reference to the difference between the Female and Male entrepreneur. The single parent, in particular the single mom, has many difficulties to overcome in order to start and maintain a business. In order for her to reach the gender equality the government will have to empower her in various ways, i.e. by providing day care centres for her children and financing support for her business.
An entrepreneur is a person who has possession over a new enterprise or venture and assumes full accountability for the inherent risks and the outcome. The term is a loan word from French and was first defined by the Irish economist Richard Cantillon. A female entrepreneur is sometimes known as an entrepreneuse. However, with the word entrepreneuse being the French feminine form of entrepreneur, its usage in English in delineating sexes detracts from the meaning of the word entrepreneur. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to the type or personality who is willing to take upon herself or himself a new venture or enterprise and accepts full responsibility for the outcome.
Entrepreneurship is often difficult and tricky, as many new ventures fail. Entrepreneur is often synonymous for founder. Most commonly, the term entrepreneur applies to someone who creates value by offering a product or service. Entrepreneurs often have strong beliefs about a market opportunity and organize their resources effectively to accomplish an outcome that changes existing interactions. Some observers see them as being willing to accept a high level of personal, professional or financial risk to pursue that opportunity, but the emerging evidence indicates they are more passionate experts than gamblers.
Gender, in common usage, refers to the differences between men and women. I wonder what difference there is between men and woman in connection to the entrepreneurship
Of all entrepreneurs 25 percent are women and 75 percent are men. Largely 30 percent of all starters are women, while...