Perceived Factors Affect Female Undergraduates’ Attitudes toward Entrepreneurship Development (Comparison Public and Private Universities in Ethiopia)

Abstract- Female entrepreneurship is considered an important tool in enabling female empowerment and emancipation. The main objective of this article is to investigate perceived factors affect female undergraduates ’ attitudes toward entrepreneurship development (comparison public and private universities in Ethiopia) For this study cross-sectional, descriptive and inferential designs study were used in the study. In the study both primary and secondary data were used. Pertaining to data analysis the researchers had used both qualitative and quantitative data analysis techniques mainly descriptive analysis using percentages, tables and graphs deployed. While for inferential statistics like distribution based analysis for nominal data type, chi-square, and multi-regeration were used to test the statistically significant difference (independency) of variables, impacts of independent variables on dependent variable. As per output of this finding there were different barriers those affects female undergraduates for not entering into entrepreneurship. The major barriers expected were, the responsibility of running a business too difficult, lack of a ability to know how to access business information, difficult to obtain the finance necessary and lack of a good business idea as an inhibitor to entrepreneurship, worry lack of experience needed to run a business and lack of the business skills required to run their own business. Therefore, in order to change their worries from different barriers, entrepreneurship subject and training on entrepreneurs’ successful characteristics are highly needed. Index Terms- Female entrepreneurship, undergraduate students