The mind of a technopreneuress: differentiating the self-leading, entrepreneurial from custodial, managerial female

One emerging trend in the 21st Century is the rise in the roles of women in society. In Singapore, increasingly women are filling-up not just the mundane, clerical ranks or the executive, managerial positions but also emerging as entrepreneurs. Or as coined by us as ‘technopreneuress’. For most interestingly, according to recent statistics, women are emerging as technologically more competent than before. In this paper, we explore the inner processes of the psychological adaptation and changes necessary in the female psyche before a societal, technopreneurial matriarchy may take root. Already, politically we witness the rise of women leaders in South East Asia: Megawati in Indonesia, Arroyo in Philippines and possibly in post-Bush US, the rise of Mrs Clinton. We structured our empirical investigations to focus on those personal traits, interpersonal and leadership styles that differentiate women as self-leading ‘technopreneuress’, i.e. the entrepreneurial from the managerial. We conclude by integrating our research findings with left–right brain attributes and on the future mind of the successful, technology-oriented entrepreneur.