Tearing down the double glass ceiling for the women immigrant entrepreneurs in high-tech industry

Pugalia, S; Cetindamar Kozanoglu, D

Tearing down the double glass ceiling for the women immigrant entrepreneurs in high-tech industry

Pugalia, S Cetindamar Kozanoglu, D

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Citation:: 2019, pp. 1 - 14
Issue Date:: 2019-12-03

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dc.contributor.author	Pugalia, S	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Cetindamar Kozanoglu, D https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0457-3258	en_US
dc.date	2019-12-03	en_US
dc.date.issued	2019-12-03	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	2019, pp. 1 - 14	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/138918
dc.description.abstract	Although the number of women-owned firms is growing, there still remains the gap in the technology sector. The purpose of the present study is to explore the barriers faced by women-entrepreneurs due to their immigrant and ethnicity status. The paper presents a literature review in order to shed light on the possible causes of the lower number of women immigrant entrepreneurs particularly in high-tech sectors. Given the human, financial and network disadvantages faced by women vis-a-vis men, the immigrant status escalates the barriers further and create additional layer of "glass ceiling" to pass for women who want to start a technology-based venture. In other words, immigrant women face a set of invisible barriers to advancement in their entrepreneurial career in high-technology sectors. The paper points out the existence of barriers and calls for researchers to find out ways to tear down these glass ceilings in order to empower woman and support their contribution to society as UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development argues.	en_US
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.title	Tearing down the double glass ceiling for the women immigrant entrepreneurs in high-tech industry	en_US
dc.type	Conference Proceeding
utslib.location.activity	Cairns, Australia	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology/School of Information, Systems and Modelling
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pubs.finish-date	2019-12-06	en_US
pubs.publication-status	Accepted	en_US
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Abstract:

Although the number of women-owned firms is growing, there still remains the gap in the technology sector. The purpose of the present study is to explore the barriers faced by women-entrepreneurs due to their immigrant and ethnicity status. The paper presents a literature review in order to shed light on the possible causes of the lower number of women immigrant entrepreneurs particularly in high-tech sectors. Given the human, financial and network disadvantages faced by women vis-a-vis men, the immigrant status escalates the barriers further and create additional layer of "glass ceiling" to pass for women who want to start a technology-based venture. In other words, immigrant women face a set of invisible barriers to advancement in their entrepreneurial career in high-technology sectors. The paper points out the existence of barriers and calls for researchers to find out ways to tear down these glass ceilings in order to empower woman and support their contribution to society as UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development argues.

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