Reference to gender in language can lead individuals to draw distinctions between genders and re-inforce traditional … views of gender roles. To test our hypothesis that language gender-marking exerts an influence on the gender gap in … at the individual level. We find the gender gap in the probability of owning a formal account, having access to a formal …

.Originality/value: This article contributes to the scant empirical literature on finance and gender …

Financial inclusion (FI) for vulnerable populations, such as women, is critical for achieving gender equality, women … been several attempts to measure FI for the general population, there is limited literature on gender-based measurement of … FI. This paper fills this important research gap by developing a gender-based FI index (GFII) focusing particularly on …