Does Gender and Academic Year Affect The Performance of Entrepreneurship Education

Abstract

Entrepreneurship education has received special attention from the Indonesian government in the last ten years. One of the government programs is to increase the number of entrepreneurs to support Indonesia’s vision of becoming a developed country in 2045. Research on gender issues and women entrepreneurship has attracted attention, thus increased tremendously. Yet, few scholars are still researching the relationship between gender and entrepreneurship academic performance, especially in Indonesia. This study compares entrepreneurship subject final score, using gender and academic year as the independent variables. The data used in this study is secondary data taken from the educational system. There are 3336 data used in this research. There are four academic year levels, and there are 834 data in each academic year, consisting of 374 males and 460 females. The comparative test is analyzed using a two-way ANOVA. This study shows a significant difference between the male and female final scores on entrepreneurship subjects from the second semester until the fifth semester. Females tend to have higher scores compared to males. This study also shows that there is a significant difference in the final score between each academic year. The development of the two-way ANOVA shows that there is no interaction between academic year and gender. Based on the finding, it is recommended to do further research to find the reason behind the excellent achievement by female.