ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTIONS CONCERNING GENDER VARIABLE: THE CASE OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

This study examines differences in entrepreneurial intentions concerning gender variables using Turkish university students in Ankara, Türkiye. The study was conducted on 287 students: 127 males and 160 females. The study results showed that the entrepreneurship scores of male students were significantly higher than female students. This finding is also consistent with the results obtained from multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA). Gender was used as an independent variable. Leadership, Innovation, Productivity, and Responsibility factors were used as dependent variables. There was a statistically significant difference between males and females on the combined effects of four entrepreneurship intentions factors as dependent variables. An inspection of the mean scores indicated that males reported slightly higher levels of responsibility, leadership, innovation, and productivity than females. Gender differences in the four factors remained significant with multivariate analysis of co-variance analysis while controlling for other variables, such as age, income level, education level, employment status, family's own business, mother's work, and the entrepreneurial aspect. This analysis reveals that gender differences in entrepreneurial intentions (i.e. multivariate main effect) existed after controlling for these covariates.