The Role of Stereotype Threat, Anxiety, and Emotional Intelligence in Women’s Opportunity Evaluation

Masculine stereotypes of entrepreneurship represent a threat to women. We aim to understand how such stereotype threat affects women’s opportunity evaluation through anxiety. We test our idea using a two-randomized-experiment strategy and achieve external validity using a survey of female entreprene...

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Published inEntrepreneurship theory and practice Vol. 47; no. 5; pp. 1699 - 1730
Main Authors Zhang, Hui, Zhou, Xiaohu, Nielsen, Mette Søgaard, Klyver, Kim
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.09.2023
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects
Anxiety
Emotional intelligence
Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship
Gender stereotypes
Masculinity
Women
women’s entrepreneurship
anxiety
emotional intelligence
stereotype threat
opportunity evaluation
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Summary:Masculine stereotypes of entrepreneurship represent a threat to women. We aim to understand how such stereotype threat affects women’s opportunity evaluation through anxiety. We test our idea using a two-randomized-experiment strategy and achieve external validity using a survey of female entrepreneurs. We find that situational anxiety, as an emotional mechanism, explains why stereotype threat negatively influences opportunity evaluation among women. We further unveil emotional intelligence as a boundary condition enabling women to cope with stereotype threat during opportunity evaluation. Our studies provide new insights into an emotive view of stereotype threat in the context of women’s entrepreneurship.
ISSN:1042-2587
1540-6520
DOI:10.1177/10422587221096905