What Does Marriage Change? A Comparative Survey On Women Entrepreneurs

The aim of this research is to investigate the differences between married and single women entrepreneurs. A questionnaire is applied to 200 women entrepreneurs operating in various sectors in Erzurum city center. Data set is analyzed by using One Sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test and non-parametric Mann-Whitney U test. Analysis results indicate that mean ranks for two groups differ significantly from each other only in 4 variables among 32 variables, according to marital status. Compared to single entrepreneurs, married entrepreneurs seem to have lower education level and higher average of age; employ more employees and have expressed less difficulty in determining sales prices. On the other hand, two groups do not significantly differ from each other in 28 variables. Married and single women entrepreneurs encountered problems in the start-up phase in business management at similar levels