tendency of women to start businesses in the service sector, which is underrepresented in the crafts. Women also tend to be … women to care for children and actively participate in the labor force at the same time. On the other, incomes are generally … lower. Women are more risk averse and tend to be more cautious in their entrepreneurial endeavors. They are more likely to …

Despite a steady increase in the number of self-employed women, the so-called gender gap has hardly diminished. Based …-induced employment breaks - which from a theoretical perspective go along with a loss of human capital - explain women's lower start …

activities. Women are relatively often and foreigners rarely represented in the start-up actvities of the service sector. …

This thesis analyses the working situation of women in engineering jobs in Austria. This is an important issue since … disadvantages for women, some of them being less income, bad career chances and less job security. This particular working field has … security, high incomes and others, women are especially less represented at these jobs. Additionally the working situation in …