women entrepreneurs are a heterogeneous group in terms of age background and education and they are active in a wide range of sectors however they often work in professions where the opportunities and conditions for entrepreneurship have been limited such as healthcare nursing and education there is no big difference between men s and women s entrepreneurship in sweden but an interesting difference is observed in the level of education the level of education of women is higher than that of men this fact is also reflected in the number of women engineers and the patents taken out by women in recent years in of all patents in sweden were taken out by women