A Study of Factors on Women from the Tech Sector and Entrepreneurship

The gender imbalance on the science, technology, engineering and medical domains commonly referred as STEM fields is a problem in the high-tech society. Furthermore, as women has been underrepresented in the field for decades, most success stories are usually male-driven. To study the factors affecting the women interest to-wards entrepreneurship and tech sector, we conducted a series of surveys and interviews to understand the problems and the underlying phenomena better. Based on our results, the most common factors limiting the interests towards entrepreneurship such as financial risks or leadership skills might not be gender-related, but there are also aspects such as social acceptance, inequality, and lack of role models, which affect especially the women interested in the possibilities on be-coming an entrepreneur in STEM fields. Even if the younger generations seem to be more interested on becoming entrepreneurs, easy fixes such as adding positive examples of success could have a meaningful impact of fixing the gender imbalance on STEM field, and in technology entrepreneurship in general.