We develop a framework for quantifying barriers to labor force participation (LFP) and entrepreneurship faced by women … women entrepreneurs. However, there is one area in which female entrepreneurs have an advantage: the hiring of female …, policies promoting female entrepreneurship can significantly increase female LFP even without explicitly targeting female LFP …

literacy training directly benefits men, it does not raise the sales level of women entrepreneurs. Instead, tertiary education … entrepreneurship as a possible growth driver. This paper contributes to reconciling mixed findings in the literature on the … effectiveness of entrepreneurial training with an analysis that links training and human capital, including tertiary education and …

Small business activity and female entrepreneurship have become increasingly important features of the UK economy since … that it is primarily single women that drive the well-established empirical relationship between personal wealth and … business start-ups. Therefore, public policies specifically targeted at relieving the liquidity constraints of women could help …

Innovative women entrepreneurs can be agents of change and offer novel solutions to global challenges. However, they … face multiple barriers to growing their businesses. This paper reviews the literature on strategies to support women … various interventions suggest the need for more precise targeting. The multiple constraints faced by women entrepreneurs …

than men. Among women entrepreneurs, those with college education and confident in their skills tend to start their firms … genders with higher start-up capital record better sales performance than those with smaller amounts of capital. For women … countries, women entrepreneurs in Swaziland have smaller start-up capital and are less likely to fund it from formal sources …

Both organizational and sociological approaches in entrepreneurship research highlight the importance of social context … in shaping individual preferences for entrepreneurship. An influential contextual factor that has not been studied in … entrepreneurship research is one's boss at work. Do entrepreneurial bosses contribute to their employees' decisions to become …

institutional biases against women from other constraints and hurdles that female businesses might face by exploiting detailed trade … inequality and institutional biases against women in trade partner countries play an important role in explaining gender …

both high aspiration and low aspiration entrepreneurship. We also find that women benefit more from the larger informal … hypotheses; that women are less likely to undertake entrepreneurial activity in countries where the rule of law is weaker; where … are more robust and address multicollinearity between the institutional measures. We find that women are less likely to …

Women start fewer businesses than men. The start-up rate among women in Germany falls short of males' start-up rate by …, entrepreneurship-related attitudes, and general personality traits of both business starters and non-starters. Estimating binary choice … favor of higher start-up rates among women, while the distribution of personality traits is less favorable for business …