Though gender equality has been at the centre of debate over the last decades, a number of benefits concerning the … female presence, meant as women in decision-making positions, on a firm's performance both in financial and sustainability … terms. The goal is to contribute to the literature streams on gender economics and on sustainable finance. Most research on …

. We focus on the rise of female entrepreneurship in Serbia and collect an extensive biographical dataset of women, who … female empowerment is female entrepreneurship; however, the literature on the emergence of female entrepreneurship is scarce … took part in privatization. Although women enjoyed the same de jure rights as men, they faced a number of informal …

Christian missions, especially Protestants missions, have been shown to advance longrun education outcomes and gender … equality in Africa. However, the mechanisms behind this benign legacy and the contribution of missionary women, who constituted … of missions in colonial Africa, including the gender composition of their staff. In combination with contemporary survey …

This report from the Diana Project explores the extent of equity investments in women-owned businesses. Surveyed were 1 …,700 applicants to the 2000 Springboard forums to examine the current state of venture capital for women entrepreneurs interested in …, and capable of, high growth venturing, in hopes of debunking myths about women and venture capital.Eight myths about women …

institutional contexts for women's entrepreneurship and their intersections, as informed by entrepreneurship, gender and geography … relation to gender and women, the focus has been on the influence of social contexts such as networks, family and household … embeddedness of women entrepreneurs or the institutional environment for women's entrepreneurship. We contribute to the literature …