Table 1. Gender Difference in the Entrepreneurship-Prone Big Five Profile Across 51 Cultures.
Culture | N (males/females) | Direction of gender differences(M = Males score higher; F = Females score higher) | Significance of genderdifference | Effect size of genderdifference (d) |
Argentina | 104/100 | F | ns | −0.14 |
Australia | 105/101 | M | ns | 0.25 |
Austria | 80/78 | M | ns | 0.15 |
Belgium | 127/120 | M | ns | 0.23 |
Botswana | 95/91 | M | ns | 0.13 |
Brazil | 306/291 | M | p<.05 | 0.18 |
Burkina Faso | 102/105 | M | p<.001 | 0.54 |
Canada | 69/98 | F | ns | −0.03 |
Chile | 94/100 | F | ns | −0.05 |
China | 91/86 | M | p<.05 | 0.31 |
Croatia | 97/94 | M | ns | 0.01 |
Czech | 170/230 | F | ns | −0.04 |
Denmark | 72/81 | M | ns | 0.21 |
England | 95/99 | M | p<.01 | 0.42 |
Estonia | 160/138 | M | ns | 0.03 |
Ethiopia | 99/98 | M | ns | 0.14 |
France | 135/139 | M | ns | 0.05 |
Germany | 156/437 | M | ns | 0.12 |
Hong Kong | 105/102 | M | p<.001 | 0.44 |
Iceland | 99/100 | M | ns | 0.23 |
India | 93/92 | M | ns | 0.25 |
Indonesia | 97/99 | M | p<.05 | 0.36 |
Iran | 69/68 | M | ns | 0.02 |
Italy | 96/99 | M | ns | 0.08 |
Japan | 96/95 | M | ns | 0.23 |
Kuwait | 218/250 | M | p<.001 | 0.34 |
Lebanon | 82/118 | F | ns | −0.03 |
Malaysia | 127/162 | M | ns | 0.22 |
Malta | 101/101 | M | p<.01 | 0.37 |
Mexico | 93/80 | M | ns | 0.14 |
Morocco | 98/73 | F | ns | −0.06 |
N. Ireland | 52/54 | F | ns | −0.00 |
New Zealand | 101/99 | M | ns | 0.06 |
Nigeria | 90/94 | F | ns | −0.04 |
Peru | 67/87 | M | p<.05 | 0.39 |
Philippines | 99/98 | M | ns | 0.27 |
Poland | 98/99 | F | ns | −0.04 |
Portugal | 101/97 | M | ns | 0.07 |
Puerto Rico | 85/75 | M | ns | 0.01 |
Russia | 154/166 | F | ns | −0.14 |
S. Korea | 101/95 | F | ns | −0.08 |
Serbia | 101/99 | M | ns | 0.18 |
Slovak | 98/100 | F | ns | −0.06 |
Slovenia | 99/110 | F | ns | −0.18 |
Spain | 100/100 | F | ns | −0.06 |
Swiss-French | 128/137 | M | p<.05 | 0.29 |
Swiss-German | 98/116 | M | ns | 0.17 |
Thailand | 106/103 | M | ns | 0.00 |
Turkey | 104/104 | M | ns | 0.08 |
Uganda | 83/83 | M | ns | 0.29 |
USA | 456/463 | M | ns | 0.02 |