Factors of Professional Success for Self-Employed Women

Numerous publications about female entrepreneurship present concepts of professional success and a variety of factors enabling or determining the achievement of professional success by woman. The authors list those specific psychological characteristics, skills and behaviours. The challenge for any woman can be an environment, and the factors on which she has no considerable impact. Such internal and environmental factors that may become the determinants of entrepreneurship will be presented here based on literature review. Scientists who study female entrepreneurship indicate numerous factors which have an influence on women’s professional success. These are: skills specific for women, specific characteristics, social conditions: cultural and environmental. The aim of this article is to determine the most important factors which help women to achieve professional success. To accomplish those aims, the following research questions were formulated: (1) Which skills are needed to achieve a women’s professional success? (2) Do certain universal characteristics exist which facilitate the achievement of women's professional success? (3) Which cultural and environmental conditions determine entrepreneurial behaviors in women which ensure professional success?