How can we close the gender gap in social entrepreneurship? Female-only competitions might be an answer. In two studies, we test the effectiveness of offering female-only competitions to increase women’s willingness to compete compared to men’s. For this purpose, we used real-effort tasks...

Social entrepreneurship has emerged as an important means of addressing grand challenges. Although research on the topic has accelerated, scholars have yet to articulate an overarching framework that links the different pathways taken by social entrepreneurs with the positive effects of these...