The current study examines the gender gap in SME ownership and socio-economic factors which lead women to start Small … Nuwara Eliya district where only 20% of SMEs are owned by women. However, the gender gap in SME ownership is comparatively … and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Sri Lanka. The study conducted enterprise survey with 329 SME owners and also household …

sizable gender effects. Women attend research sessions more diligently than men (at any point in time only half of the …

Important gender differences in earnings and career trajectories persist. Particularly, in professions such as business …. Gender differences in competitiveness have been proposed as a potential explanation. Using an incentivized measure of … competitiveness, this paper investigates whether competitiveness explains future gender differences in earnings and industry choice in …

relative to fathers, narrowing the emerging post-pandemic gender gap. Having a stay-at-home partner reduced the disruptions to …