Female entrepreneurs' well-being and governmental support programs

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K01810
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 07080:Business administration-related
• Research Institution: Senshu University
• Principal Investigator: Kazumi Tomoyo 専修大学, 商学部, 教授 (00349193)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 高橋 徳行 武蔵大学, 経済学部, 教授 (60366838) ; 河合 憲史 上智大学, 経済学部, 准教授 (20867478)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: 女性起業家 / 起業家活動 / ウェルビーイング / ジェンダーギャップ / 幸福度 / 生活満足度

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Most of women entrepreneurs establish smaller business than that men have a new business of generally, and there are few employment and creation of the yield of taxes. Of course there is the person that we make full use of an extensive technique among women entrepreneurs, and a company does incremental high start-up. However, from a viewpoint that they do not lead to economical development even if support the company of women, the assistance measures by the government are restrictive.
Therefore, in this study, we analyzed the significance of the company for women from the part except the economical point of view, e.g., worth doing and a purpose of life, a point of view such as the well-being. From results of the quantitative survey to men and women entrepreneur, a female than a male entrepreneur felt higher well-being and appreciated the significance in the life of own job, and the satisfaction to life was found to be high, too.

Free Research Field

起業家活動

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究成果の学術的意義は、日本の起業家が感じている自身の事業の価値や意義、生活の満足度、幸福度について、量的なデータを収集し、分析したという点にある。特に、女性起業家のほうが男性より、自身の事業の意義や人生における位置づけ、生活の満足度、幸福度を強く感じているということが明らかになった。
本研究の社会的意義は、特に調査時点がCOVID-19の感染拡大時期（2021年）であったことから、困難な社会経済環境にあっても、起業や事業経営が充実した生活の実現や幸福感の実感に役立つものであり、規模の拡大のみならず、weii-beingの向上という観点での女性起業支援が必要であることがわかった。