ABSTRACT The insertion of women in the market and their access to higher education has contributed for a change in the role traditionally attributed to them, influencing their professional choice. However, differently from men, professional issues still occupy a secondary position in women's lives. Therefore, women choose formal job instead of entrepreneurship. In this context, the purpose of this essay is to analyze women entrepreneurship as a professional choice at a business Management course and to relate it to the reasons why they choice for this course and to study the fact that the students consider important to their professional activity. The essay has an exploratory character and the data were statistically treated through factorial analyses, ANOVA and logistic regression.
Professional choice; Entrepreneurship; Gender; Higher education; Entrepreneurial characteristics
