Female entrepreneurship in Poland and Spain – comparative analysis

Nowadays, women's entrepreneurship is gaining more and more importance. Due to technological progress, the number of positions in sectors of the economy traditionally dominated by women is gradually decreasing from year to year. At the same time, the number of women with tertiary education, but facing considerable ones, is increasing adversities in accessing jobs, with the result that female unemployment is higher than male unemployment. Self-employment may be the solution. Many studies confirm that women are as enterprising as men, which contributes greatly to economic development. From an economic and social point of view, the key issue therefore seems to be to promote, facilitate and increase women's entrepreneurship participation among business owners. The aim of this article is to make a comparative analysis and evaluation of the phenomenon of female entrepreneurship in Poland and Spain to outline the prospects for its development. The desk research analysis was adopted as the research method, taking into account the existing data, i.e. publications, reports, analyzes, data from Eurostat and the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor in the scope of the analyzed phenomenon.