Alternative Routes: A Study on Women and Technology Entrepreneurship in the North-West of England

This paper examines the effect that entrepreneurial and technological identities have on women's participation in technology entrepreneurship. The research is based on a project looking at the low level of women's participation in technology entrepreneurship in the north-west of England. It examines the barriers that women face in setting up a technology business, and finds that the way in which these identities are constructed are male, restricting women's access to technology enterprise, through services and motivation.