Note of Editor in Chief 
 
 

Dear authors,  
 
This special volume of the Journal of 

Women's Entrepreneurship and Education 
(JWEE) is dedicated to issues of female 
entrepreneurship and education in Europe and 
Asia. On this occasion, a large number of 
scientists participated in the writing papers, of 
which the nine best ones were selected.  

We are especially grateful to the guest 
editor Dr. Mark Pruett from the United States, who, in his introductory text, 
emphasized the importance of this Journal in promoting female 
entrepreneurship and education. He mentioned that the Journal of Women’s 
Entrepreneurship and Education (JWEE) has been publishing on this 
subject for fifteen years, with authors and research settings from around the 
world. Accordingly, during all this time, the Journal has made a great 
contribution to research in this area and has brought together researchers 
from about fifty countries so far. This contributed to its progress over time 
and its inclusion in SCOPUS Q3 with the tendency of further progress. 

Dr. Mark Pruett pointed out that it was among the first in the world to 
publish a paper of Afghanistan university female and male students 
regarding entrepreneurship and self-efficacy, intentions, and perception of 
motives and barriers (Pruett, Şeşen, et al., 2018). In addition, he stressed 
that the JWEE published the first multinational study of differences between 
female and male students in a full model of how culture and perceptions of 
motives and barriers influence entrepreneurial intentions in a four-country 
comparison of Belgium, China, Turkey and the United States (Şeşen and 
Pruett, 2014).  Finally, he concluded: “Our own experience with education, 
with entrepreneurship, and with a large body of research from the last 
couple of decades, including the results and ideas from articles in JWEE, 
leads us to believe that entrepreneurship education for women should make 
a deliberate effort to expand its traditional emphasis on teaching skills and 
concepts by integrating a second core theme—shaping students by focusing 
on developing self-confidence and personal character” (Pruett, 2023, p.2). 



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With special thanks to Dr. Pruett for the trust he has shown in our 
Journal, which he has followed since its inception, we send a message to all 
authors to further spread the mission of this journal and increase its 
influence. 
 
 
July, 2023    
 
 

   Editor-in-Chief  
Prof. Dr. Mirjana Radović-Marković