Women's Entrepreneurship in Turkey: Evidence from OECD Data

Beyond being an employment choice, its contributions to national development, and being one of the main actors in fighting against unemployment, women's entrepreneurship has become a much-debated, supported, and subjected concept to many research fields. However, from a socially constructed perspective, after the 1990s, the supposedly generic structure of entrepreneurship was considered "gendered". Consequently, "less ambitious, less profit-oriented, smaller-scale" kind of generalized references to women have started to be regarded as the results of measurement mistakes. From this perspective, one of the fundamental determinants of women's entrepreneurship is family embeddedness consisting of unpaid household chores and childcare responsibilities. In this context, this study aims to quantitatively reveal if family-embeddedness affects the number of women entrepreneurship in Turkey as well as economic factors. In the case of its association, it indicates how depending on OECD data. With this aim, OECD data covering 2006-2017 is used for a causality analysis. The findings show causal links between economic and non-economic factors and the number of women's entrepreneurship.