by a gender-biased lender, depending on the borrower’s creditworthiness and the intensity of the lender’s bias. The … empirical analysis detects no gender bias in loan denial, but uncovers disparate treatment with regard to credit conditions. In … particular, we find a “glass ceiling” effect. The gender gap in loan size increases disproportionately with respect to the scale …

by a gender-biased lender, depending on the borrower’s creditworthiness and the intensity of the lender’s bias. The … empirical analysis detects no gender bias in loan denial, but uncovers disparate treatment with regard to credit conditions. In … particular, we find a “glass ceiling” effect. The gender gap in loan size increases disproportionately with respect to the scale …

The study sought to identify the challenges facing small scale women entrepreneurs in Kenya and initiatives put in … entrepreneurs in Kenya: such as formation of women enterprise fund, establishing of women¡¯s university of science and technology … Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) in Kenya, accounting for 47.4 per cent of all those in MSEs. The study showed that 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 … Women, Growing Women, and Consolidated Professional Women. The findings proposed that women entrepreneurs are not a …

This paper examines whether women entrepreneurs operating in the informal sector in the small island economy of …. Survey data of 158 women entrepreneurs operating in the informal sector in Mauritius is used to assess the impact of the … entrepreneurs have been affected by the global financial crisis in two ways. The first is that they have been affected through …

, negotiation is an important stage of the investment process. Although gender-related differences in negotiation styles are well … gender and negotiation strategies employed during the private equity investment process. …

Small firms in general have limited access to funding, which is a major problem for entrepreneurs. In particular, this … gender, ethnicity and other relevant variables on the access to external financing of new small firms. A sample of 2 … employing binary logistic regression models. The results suggest that both gender and ethnicity are significant explanatory …

gender of the owner due to the different spending imperatives of male and female entrepreneurs and the women they employ. The … considered whether female entrepreneurs in India exhibit different economic behaviour to men. This involved in-depth qualitative … the literature of gender and small businesses in India (e.g., Harriss-White, 2003) found differing employment patterns …

Whether policy support should be designed differently for women entrepreneurs is a particularly relevant question. To … answer this, and to inform the design of policies to provide appropriate support for women entrepreneurs, the paper compares … of women. Based on a survey of 50 men and 50 women entrepreneurs in the regions of Sfax, Sousse and Tunis, our results …