1 84.6% 7.7%
22 Lack of production subsidies 1 46.2% 15.4%
attitude of all male and female friends or family members was positive and supportive towards my new business and me”.
Table 17 – Responses statement attitude of friends/family in round 2 (N=13)
Attitude of all male and female friends/family members was positive and supportive
Frequency Comments
Agree 82% • More or less.
• Not all family and / or friends support business in the same way.
Disagree 0% • -
No Answer 8% • -
Table 17 shows that there is again a consensus in round 2, on this topic regarding the attitude of male/female friends and family members, meeting the criterion of unanimity (Dajani et al., 1979). Moreover, stability has also been achieved, as there is consistency between the first and second round. Consequently, looking at Figure 4 the conclusion can be drawn that this question meets the requirements of both stability and consensus meaning it can be terminated. However, a remark has to be made, as there is a slight difference between the two rounds since two respondents agreed but made a comment to it. One respondent explained that she experienced “more or less” a positive and supportive attitude of both males and females and another had experienced a difference in attitude as she stated “Not all family and/or friends support the business in the same way”. The second question consisted of the following statement: “Most of the time women and men are treated equally by a female or male employee of an institution (e.g. bank, chamber of commerce, trade organisation etc.), but sometimes it seems that male employees are more supportive towards women than female employees”. In the first round a majority of respondents, 73%, stated not to have experienced any difference in attitude towards them between a male or female employee of an institution. In this second round still a majority agrees that most of the time male and female employees treat them equally (see Table 18). However, the majority is much smaller with only 54%, which might be due to the way the statement was posed in the second round. In the first round the question was stated suggesting a much more strict difference in attitude between a male and female employee towards the respondent. In contrast to the statement in the second round, which was much less rigorously stating that most of the time both male and female employees treat women equally, but sometimes a male employee is more supportive towards women. Nonetheless, looking again at Figure 4 this question also
meets both requirements of stability and, in this case, majority. Therefore, this question is also terminated and will not be taken to the third round of the study. Table 18 – Responses statement attitude male/female employees in institutions in round 2 (N=13)
Mostly women and men are treated equally, but
sometimes male employees are more supportive towards women than female
employees
Frequency Comments
Agree 54% • It has never happened to me. • I feel treated equally by both
sexes.
• I have never noticed that. • But they might be more
supportive to women, who they think are pretty.
Disagree 23% • I think that male chauvinism is huge in Colombia. We have a culture where men will always get more possibilities than women. Gender inequality strongly influences the formation of a company.
• Most of the time a male employee is more emphatic.
No Answer 23% • -
Finally, the solutions the respondents had suggested in the open-ended question in the first round were also transformed into a Likert scale question for the second round. This question was also divided into two categories, one with Personal items and one with Business items. As aforementioned, the question was analysed using the mode and a frequency table (see Table 19). In contrast with the rating of the items concerning the barriers, a majority of the respondents rated most solution items as ‘very important’ looking at the mode. In addition, the frequencies show the same tendency as the respondents rated most items at least as ‘important’. Only item 8 “Women should establish and grow a business to show that women are equally capable as men in many fields and professions “ and item 13 “Less corruption” are rated less important.
Table 19 – Analysis of the solutions rated in round 2
4.3 Round Three
In the third and final round all ratings and suggestions on barriers and solutions of the previous questionnaires were taken together and transformed into two dichotomous questions to which the respondents could agree or disagree, complemented by the question if they disagree what items they would have ranked differently and why (see Tables 20 and 24). Furthermore, five questions regarding demographic information of the respondents were asked. The results of these five questions are summarised in Table 3 in the methodology section of this study.
Barriers
Table 20 shows the ranking of the barriers from important to unimportant. No business items were rated as unimportant in the second questionnaire therefore only neutral business items are listed.
No. Personal items Mode Important Unimportant 1 Easier access to education (e.g.
entrepreneurship, finance etc.)
1 72.7% 0.0%
2 Easier access to training (e.g. focused