Research suggests that barriers and constraints encountered by women are gender-specific, and that women are subject to … widespread assumption that female entrepreneurial agency is confronted by gender-specific barriers, and proposes an alternative … merely victims of structural gender-specific barriers. In consequence, the paper proposes that female entrepreneurs construct …

institutional contexts for women's entrepreneurship and their intersections, as informed by entrepreneurship, gender and geography … context along a continuum of where entrepreneurship takes place and when this happens. Where context has been studied in … relation to gender and women, the focus has been on the influence of social contexts such as networks, family and household …

Small business activity and female entrepreneurship have become increasingly important features of the UK economy since … further accelerate the rise of female entrepreneurship. …

Small business activity and female entrepreneurship have become increasingly important features of the UK economy since … further accelerate the rise of female entrepreneurship …

Entrepreneurship is an important economic source for any country. However, the share of female entrepreneurs is still … low with an entrepreneurial gender gap in most countries, meaning growth potential remains untapped. Relying on previous … findings in the (women) entrepreneurship literature, we build on social learning theory (Bandura 1973) and argue that role …

testable hypotheses about the gender effects of entrepreneurial culture. The principal hypothesis is that there is a greater … different entrepreneurial cultures show greater similarity of behaviour (lower variance) than men. But proportionate gender gaps …

technology and markets, and contextual factors such as legal and regulatory constraints, social norms, access to care, and gender …

Though more than 100 countries have adopted gender quotas, the impacts of these reforms on women’s political leadership …

, but oppose defense spending and subsidies for agriculture. Second, the political gender gap has shifted over time. While …

personality traits can explain a modest part of the gender gap in entrepreneurship: our estimates suggest 21%-32%. We also …-employment. -- Entrepreneurship ; Self-employment ; Gender differences ; Personality traits …A striking fact about entrepreneurship is that the number of male entrepreneurs greatly exceed the number of female …