of India's largest women's bank. A random subsample was invited to attend with a friend. The intervention had a … for women facing more restrictive social norms? We offered two days of business counseling to a random sample of customers … were stronger among women from religious or caste groups with social norms that restrict female mobility …

heightened entrepreneurship is due to channels like greater finance access or heightened inspiration for women entrepreneurs …We quantify the link between the timing of state-level implementations of political reservations for women in India … with the role of women in India's manufacturing sector. While overall employment of women in manufacturing does not …

Recent college graduate women express frustration regarding the obstacles they will face in combining career and family …. Tracing the demographic and labor force experiences of four cohorts of college women across the past century allows us to … observe the choices each made and how the constraints facing college women loosened over time. No cohort of college graduate …

entrepreneurship and rule of law that predicts that women will only start businesses when they have both formal legal protection and … a comparative advantage at violence and there is little rule-of-law, then unequal bargaining power can lead women to … segregate into low-return industries and avoid entrepreneurship altogether. In this paper, we present a model of female …

We analyze the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. We … entrepreneurship relative to male entrepreneurship. We find evidence of agglomeration economies in both sectors, where higher female … ownership among incumbent businesses within a district-industry predicts a greater share of subsequent entrepreneurs will be …

predicts human capital should respond to market returns, social norms (e.g., disapproval of women working outside the home) may … weaken or even sever this link for girls. Though many studies have examined the link between women's wages or labor force … overcome these problems, we provided three years of recruiting services to help young women in randomly selected Indian …

industrialization. The empirical evidence indicates that middle-class women in France were extensively engaged in entrepreneurship and … when the company is handed over to a female relative. Women in business have generally been presented as petty traders and … firms during the nineteenth century, and for disincentives for the integration of women in the business sector. These issues …

The career and family outcomes of college graduate women suggest that the twentieth century contained five distinct … graduated college from the late 1960s to the late 1970s. Using the NLS Young Women I demonstrate that 13 to 18 percent achieved …