The aim of this master’s degree thesis is to analyze if there is a correlation between the survival rate of female-led entrepreneurship and the number of low-skilled immigrant women, who provide home and children care, in the Piedmont region. After the introduction, a study of the background literature is made. Here it is explained what a start-up is and the causes that lead it to failure. Then, the situation of female entrepreneurship is analyzed. After an analysis of the immigrant situation in the Piedmont region and Italy, a focus on Patricia Cortes’ research (the study that inspired this thesis) is made.