Factors Affecting Iranian Women Entrepreneurship

In recent years, women entrepreneurship has developed universally and has been a concern throughout the world. Many researchers believe that the activities of female entrepreneurs have had a productive role on the economy. Women's economic activities constitute 25 to 35 percent of world's economic activities. Women's desire for entrepreneurship activities is the result of some factors such as unemployment, low income and job dissatisfaction. Identifying these factors enable us to develop entrepreneurship activities of women. The present article tries to find a model to explain and define the women's entrepreneurship. In this study, data is collected by using a questionnaire and interview technique, 139 Iranian female entrepreneurs entered in this study.