Why women entrepreneurs are happier than men?

Target: This questionnaire is designed only to be responded by women. As it would be hectic and
almost impractical to create, design and deploy questionnaires for women across whole world, sample
countries were selected from which women will respond to the designed questions. To make things
further simpler, this questionnaire is and will be deployed in only well-known rural and urban areas.

Purpose: According to the various researches, it is implied that the women entrepreneurs are happier
than their male counterparts. To determine up to what extent the research is really true and find the
scope of future women entrepreneurs, questionnaire is designed specifically for women to answer the
research question. Please try to attempt all the questions unless otherwise mentioned. Approximately,
it will take 10 minutes or less to complete the whole questionnaire.

Instructions:

• For questions that includes circled options to respond, shade only one appropriate option.
• For questions that includes boxed options to respond, shade appropriate option(s).
• Circle only one given option for scale-based questions.
• For Likert-scale based questions, shade one appropriate option for each statement.

Section A: Demographics

Firstly, in this section, we would like to know basic details about yourself.

1. Which age group do you belong to?

15 – 29 years 30 – 44 years 45 – 59 years

60+ years

2. Which country are you residing in currently?

Australia Bangladesh China

India Japan Malaysia

United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States of America

3. What is your highest qualification?

High School Diploma Degree Undergraduate Degree

Postgraduate Degree Doctoral Degree

4. What is your marital status?

Single Married Divorced

Widowed Prefer not to answer

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5. What is your current employment status?

Student Employed for wages Self-employed or Entrepreneur

Not working
If you have selected your current em ploym ent status as “Self-Em ployed or Entrepreneur” ,
attem pt Section B , otherw ise attem pt Section C .

Section B: Life as a Women Entrepreneur

Based on how the questions are answered, this section will allow to determine if women entrepreneurs
are happier than men.

1. Which women entrepreneur do you see as a role model? __________________________________

2. Why did you start your own business?

☐ Make a difference in society ☐ To be role model ☐ Leisure purpose

☐ To accept passed on legacy ☐ To survive ☐ To try something

new

☐ Childhood dream

3. How long you have been running your business?

5 – 10 years 11 – 19 years 20+ years

4. What were the challenges you faced during the start-up phase in your business?

☐ No obstacles ☐ Doubt of self-confidence ☐ Financial issues

☐ Lack of information ☐ Support from family ☐ Combining domestic

and professional life

Other reason (Please specify): ______________________________

If you select only option “N o obstacles”, skip questions 5, 6 and 7.

5. Have you ever thought of giving up business at one point?

Yes No

6. What kept you going forward with your business?

I love challenges and cracking their solution is what I enjoy the most

All the invested money would be in drain. So, I kept continuing

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7. Do you think the troubles you went through were worth it today?

Yes No Not sure

8. How well is your business operating currently?

My organization is Just running Undergoing loss

blooming normally – good
enough to survive

If option “U ndergoing loss” is selected, attem pt question 9. Else, attem pt question 10

onw ards.

9. How did you overcome (if your business was undergoing loss before and now it is operating well) or
plan to overcome the troubles you are facing? (Please specify. Skip if you didn’t face any issues.):

10. At present, do you think that you are doing better than your male business rivals?

Yes No Hard to say

11. On a scale from 1 – 4, rate your level of happiness as a women entrepreneur.

1 2 3 4

12. Please indicate your response up to what extent do you agree on how difficult it is to balance
professional and family life.

Difficulty level Strongly Agree Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly Disagree

Very difficult

Difficult

Manageable

Easily manageable

Very easily manageable

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13. Are your family members - husband and/or children happy with the business you are running?

Yes No Neutral

14. According to your experience, and working with other women, do you think working women in
overall that you came across are happy and satisfied with their current lives?

Yes No Difficult to judge

15. How would you like to educate other women to take up entrepreneurship roles?

☐ Sharing motivational videos on social media and personal website (if any)

☐ Conduct public seminars

☐ Share educative materials (such as presentations and books) on social media and personal
website

☐ Develop interactive applications for both Android and iOS devices

Section C: Future plans to become Women Entrepreneurs

The following answers to the questions will allow to determine if women are motivated and excited to
pursue their roles as entrepreneurs in future.

1. Do you have plans in the future to start your own business or being self-employed?

Yes No Not Sure

If you opt for “N o” and “N ot Sure”, skip questions 2, 3 and 4. P roceed to attem pt other
questions.

2. If you opted “Yes” with question 1, what is it that motivates you to pursue such a dream?

☐ Make a difference in society ☐ To be role model ☐ Leisure purpose

☐ To accept passed on legacy ☐ To survive ☐ To try something

new

☐ Childhood dream

3. What type of business do you want to start?

Small Business Entrepreneurship Scalable Start-up Entrepreneurship

Large Company Entrepreneurship Social Entrepreneurship

Become a freelancer

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4. If your business plan succeeds for start-up of the business you want to start, on a scale of 1 – 10,
indicate the level of excitement you have for the challenges you will face.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

5. Do you agree with the fact women are able to balance both domestic and professional life?

Boolean Strongly Agree Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly Disagree

Yes

No

6. Do you think women are more innovative than men and can change the business world?

Boolean Strongly Agree Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly Disagree

Yes

No

7. Do you feel women lack the opportunities to get funding due to gender inequality and therefore
should be given more opportunities for it to start their own business?

Yes No Don’t know

8. Once you start a business and then face a lot of challenges, what you are going to do?

Formulate new strategies to work on issues and keep continuing

To avoid getting things more worse, I will give up

Section D: Additional Comments

Any suggestions on further improvements of questionnaire design, or if you would like to speak more
about yourself, please do fill the following lines.

Thank you for completing the questionnaire! ☺

Send us com pleted questionnaire at: P.O. Box – 1150 Email – d.isham.993@gmail.com

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