FACTORS AFFECTING THE PERFORMANCE OF WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS IN MICRO ...

and 3.96 and standard deviations 1.4 and 1.1 for attitude of employees and relationship
with employees respectively clearly strengthens this idea.
But, these respondents do not agree with the idea of having conflicting gender roles. The
mean scores (2.02) and standard deviations (1.21) in the table above shows that there are
different conflicting gender roles for the respondent women entrepreneurs in MSEs.
By the same taken, issues of gender inequality, cultural influences and harassments are
not serious problems for women entrepreneurs in MSEs as the table above shows very
well. The respondents agree with a mean of 3.55 and standard deviation of 1.43 that there
are no gender inequalities. Similarly they agree on the issues that cultural influences and
harassment problems are very low. This is justified by the mean scores 3.87 and 3.82
with a deviation of 1.4 and 1.31 for cultural influences and harassments respectively.
Legal and administrative factors
Of the different factors that hinder entrepreneurial performance, the impact of legal and
administrative influences is not to be undermined. The following table displays the key
legal and administrative factors that affect the performance of women entrepreneurs in
MSEs.
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