The empowerment of women within households remains a major issue around the world including in Africa. We have … conducted a study in Burundi coupling discussion sessions with microfinancing to determine if they enhance the role of women in …

Allowing women to access and participate in the economics of life is no longer a “women's issue”. Gender equality has … discrimination is an issue even in firms directly engaged with the empowerment of women, also becomes an urgency. Commitment is not … find that women in MFIs, differently from men, do not discriminate in loan size against women borrowers by gender. Moreover …

adequate collateral limits women entrepreneurs' ability to access formal finance, leaving them torely on informal sources … gender gaps in financial access. Results suggest that anincrease in women entrepreneurs access to formal credit results in …