significantly increases the labor force participation rate of women and the employment rates of both men and women. Our results … unpaid agricultural work into operating small agricultural enterprises, while women take more unpaid jobs, especially in … agriculture, and operate more small businesses in all sectors. Both men and women are more likely to work in wage jobs in the …

heightened entrepreneurship is due to channels like greater finance access or heightened inspiration for women entrepreneurs …/informal sector. These new establishments were concentrated in industries where women entrepreneurs have been traditionally active and …We quantify the link between the timing of state-level implementations of political reservations for women in India …

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 …

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

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 …