The entrepreneurial intention of women
Mueller (2004) demonstrates that women’s entrepreneurial intentions are lower than those of men especially in developing countries. What about a country in an economy of transition, such as Egypt?, Furthering Mueller’s exploration, we try to articulate in this paper a sex-based comparison and a gender-based approach to better understand the difference between male and female entrepreneurial intentions in the Egyptian culture. Thanks to a quantitative research led in 2010 among 320 French-speaking Egyptian students in Cairo, we are able to demonstrate that female Egyptian students have a strong desire to undertake and to implement rather quickly their projects. Also, they are quite confident in their entrepreneurial skills and aware of obstacles that they will meet. Nevertheless, the study reveals certain Egyptian male students’ ambivalences towards their entrepreneurial future that unveil a set of important gender issues. Therefore, the present study completes Mueller’s (2004) and Langowitz and Minitti (2007) conclusions, we can argue then that in a developing country, the imbalance between men and womens’ entrepreneurial motivations is limited.