On Wednesday 18th May we had the pleasure to listen to Assitant Professor Tiantian Yang from Duke University, North Carolina giving a research seminar on "Career Antecedents of Female Entrepreneurship".

The need to resolve work-family conflict has long been considered a central motive for women’s pursuit of atypical careers, such as entrepreneurship. Combining insights from the motherhood penalty literature and career mobility research, they uncover a new mechanism driving female entrepreneurship: diminishing advancement options due to motherhood discrimination. Overall, this study sheds light on the different antecedents of female entrepreneurship and contributes to the understanding of when women pursue irregular and atypical careers, such as entrepreneurship.