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8prospective women entrepreneurs in technical sectors, it is necessary to study this processfurther. In the future focusing on women with technical degrees and their propensity ofstarting new ventures in technical fields seems to be a study worthwhile. The NationalScience Foundation (NSF, 2002) reports that women granted science and engineering(S&E) degrees, excluding social sciences, account for 15% of all technical degrees in U.S.According to an NSF (2002) report, among the total self-employed people with technicaldegrees in the business sector, women are less likely than men to be employed in technicaldomains, (35.1% of men versus 2.9% of women self employed in engineering relatedfields) and 24.7% of men versus 12.6% of women self employed in computer/math sciencerelated sectors. Therefore, another further avenue of research may be a comparative studyof men and women with technical degrees and the differences between them inentrepreneurial opportunity recognition and starting new ventures in technology. Suchstudy is very timely and helpful in our understanding the challenges women face with instarting new ventures in technical fields.8