The current study examines the gender gap in SME ownership and socio-economic factors which lead women to start Small … Nuwara Eliya district where only 20% of SMEs are owned by women. However, the gender gap in SME ownership is comparatively … and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Sri Lanka. The study conducted enterprise survey with 329 SME owners and also household …

This paper uses ECB survey data to assess whether gender matters in the small firms' financial structure and access to … those led by men, without leaving room for a significant gender effect. An additional contribution of this paper is to … compare the major euro-area countries within a homogeneous framework: weak evidence of gender discrimination appears in the …