Gender Differences in Entrepreneurial Traits among College Students

Abstract

Entrepreneurship is bound to play a critical and pivotal role in the growth and development of the economy in the coming years. It has been acknowledged as one of the essential factors determining the growth and development of any country. Entrepreneurs and enterprises contribute to building a competitive and dynamic knowledge based economy capable of sustainable economic growth and greater social cohesion. Entrepreneurship is a broad term encompassing a set of skills that includes creativity, leadership and communication, risk taking, persistence, hard work, motivation and teamwork. The present research examined to study the gender differences in entrepreneurial traits among college students. The total number of questionnaires distributed in the self-administered survey was 900 sets. A purposive sampling method is applied in this research for selecting the sample. As a result, 575 (filled questionnaire) valid sets of questionnaires were available and then used for further analysis using SPSS software version 21. A structured questionnaire was used to collect the data, while the independent sample ‘t’ test was used to analyze the data. Hence, the study, therefore, concluded that the there is a difference between Male and Female with regard to the dimension of Personal Entrepreneurial Traitsand Social Entrepreneurial Traits. Males score higher than Females with respect to Personal Entrepreneurial Traitsand Social Entrepreneurial Traits.