contingent to geography, type of companies and industry where women could be operating. The results also show that having a … female CEO has a positive effect on women job opportunities, and that woman will not be less risk taking than men in managing …

educational infrastructure, women become better educated, improve their skills and capabilities, gain possibilities to enter the … labour market and use financial resources to start up their own businesses. All these bring women to play a role on the … labour market and significantly contribute to overall socio-economic development. The women entrepreneurship unfolds various …

Women are universally considered good microfinance clients. The reason behind this is a popular belief in the … microfinance industry that women are better credit risks than men. Female targeting has been suggested to generate higher repayment … suggest that women are indeed better microfinance borrowers as they have significant negative relationship with MFI portfolio …

for women entrepreneurs in developing countries and discuss future research opportunities. Research Design & Methods: We …). Findings: We categorised the key findings into themes (T), contexts (C), and methodologies (M). The major challenges for women … more specialized women entrepreneurship policies by assembling research identifying national barriers empirically and …

larger families than women do. Within countries, we find wide dispersion in spouses' desired fertility: there are many … to which women are empowered should matter for fertility choices. We point to evidence at both the macro and micro levels … that this is indeed the case. We conclude that taking account of household bargaining and women's empowerment in analyses …