Results offered substantial support for the notion
that female entrepreneurs benefit from the linkages of family-to-business enrichment and
support to entrepreneurial success, whereas they offered no support for the notion that male
entrepreneurs benefit from these linkages. Female entrepreneurs may experience such
benefits because of their relative lack of access to other resources such as human, social, and
financial capital and because the female gender role encourages them to pursue work–family
synergies. In contrast, male entrepreneurs may fail to experience such benefits because of the
relative abundance of other resources available to them and because the male gender role
discourages them from pursuing work–family synergies.