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Entrepreneurship research and policy formulation share a discourse of economic growth and individualism, where female entrepreneurs and their business are seen as underperforming (Marlow and McAdam, 2013). However, such studies neither highlight the complexity of the female entrepreneurship experience in the socio-economic context nor illustrate the influence of specific cultural, legislative, and economic factors on women’s entrepreneurial endeavors (Henry et al., 2016). More than half of all women entrepreneurs in Ethiopia often face gender-related challenges in establishing new businesses as well as in operating or expanding existing businesses (Amha and Ademassie, 2004). Their businesses are particularly disadvantaged with regards to access to finance, skills, government support, and the conversion of profit back into investment (Bekele and Worku, 2008; Belwal et al., 2012; Singh and Belwal, 2008). In particular, challenges that disadvantage women entrepreneurs are found in the culture, religion, and tradition (Bekele and Worku, 2008). Family responsibility, household obligations and lack of support constrain them in confronting these challenges (Belwal et al., 2012). Moreover, in a country like Ethiopia, with no social care system, women play a central role in the extended family. Overall, familial, structural, and cultural constraints have impacts on performance of female-owned businesses. Thus, as Marlow and McAdam (2013) put forward, women-owned businesses demonstrate constrained performance but not underperformance. Hence, a crucial step before concluding that the majority of women entrepreneurs are underperforming is to understand what success in business actually means to the women entrepreneurs themselves within the socio-economic context in which they operate their businesses. There is some recognition that entrepreneurs’ evaluations of success go beyond economic returns (Wach et al., 2016a) and that success in business cannot be equated simply with firm performance or with financial rewards

Redefining success beyond economic growth and wealth generation: the case of Ethiopia