This paper analyzes the impact of the Strengthening Women Entrepreneurship in Peru (SWEP) program. SWEP trained female … expenditures, or women's empowerment in the household. Qualitative information suggests that micro entrepreneurs were satisfied …

activities. Women are relatively often and foreigners rarely represented in the start-up actvities of the service sector. …

Despite a steady increase in the number of self-employed women, the so-called gender gap has hardly diminished. Based …-induced employment breaks - which from a theoretical perspective go along with a loss of human capital - explain women's lower start …

. The research identified six profiles according to the different routes by which women choose entrepreneurship: Young Women …The study identifies the various reasons why women become entrepreneurs, considering their life cycle and the factors … that have encouraged them, using the qualitative paradigm based on case studies of twenty-four women entrepreneurs in Peru …

disadvantages of e-learning with a stress of special benefits for women. Additionally, presented are results of several researches …

the role of self-employment among low-skilled workers across gender and nativity—women and immigrants are shown to be of …-skilled self-employment among men is higher than among women, the analysis shows that wage/salary employment is a more financially …

This study examines whether microfinance institutions (MFIs) that serve women borrowers at the base of the economic … women’s empowerment—moderate the influence of an MFI’s percentage of women borrowers on the probability of the MFI having a … POE code. MFIs that serve more women borrowers are more likely to adopt a POE code, especially in negative contexts (where …

Traditionally, women have had less access to education and have not been expected to run companies, positions typically … reserved for men. However, this study demonstrates a trend toward tremendous support for women in business. The purpose of this … paper was to gauge indigenous perceptions of the potential for women to own and lead businesses in three developing …

entrepreneurship. In the Catalan Leader+ Programme around 50 percent of the individual projects were promoted by women. Nevertheless … increase female entrepreneurship in rural areas they must support especially the projects in which women are more concerned … the Groups, the number of women in the decisional bodies, and the socioeconomic characteristic. Otherwise, the better …