This paper is concerned with whether women are less likely to express business start-up intentions because of a less … a conceptual basis for this question, and investigates it using a survey of business start-up intention from across a …

gender performance gap. After controlling for business and entrepreneur characteristics, female-owned businesses exhibit a …

Small business activity and female entrepreneurship have become increasingly important features of the UK economy since … the start of the Great Recession. In this paper, we re-examine the impact of liquidity constraints on new business … business start-ups. Therefore, public policies specifically targeted at relieving the liquidity constraints of women could help …