recommendations for further policies in this area. Entrepreneurship can create new economic opportunities for women and contribute to … balancing work and family obligations for women. However, entrepreneurs, both male and female, are relatively scarce in India … entrepreneurs face gender biases stemming from socio-economic factors or specific biases in laws such as inheritance laws. …

Occupational segregation significantly contributes to the earnings gender gap worldwide. We look at differences in … entrepreneurship. Data on Uganda show that women breaking into male-dominated sectors make as much as men, and three times more than … women staying in female-dominated sectors. Factors including entrepreneurial skill/abilities and credit/human capital …

relation to gender and women, the focus has been on the influence of social contexts such as networks, family and household … institutional contexts for women's entrepreneurship and their intersections, as informed by entrepreneurship, gender and geography … gendered, reflecting local institutions such as accepted gender norms which may "force" women into specific industries or …

Innovative women entrepreneurs can be agents of change and offer novel solutions to global challenges. However, they … face multiple barriers to growing their businesses. This paper reviews the literature on strategies to support women … technology and markets, and contextual factors such as legal and regulatory constraints, social norms, access to care, and gender …

propensities between men and women. The consequences of the assumed differential importance of household and family generate … testable hypotheses about the gender effects of entrepreneurial culture. The principal hypothesis is that there is a greater … chance of females in 'unentrepreneurial' cultures being relatively entrepreneurial compared to males. Also women from …

considered along gender lines. The paper argues that culture alone cannot fully capture any real or perceived gender differences … dynamics. Therefore governments as well as other funding agencies should realise that gender-specific enterprise support is … fast losing its relevance. Men and women equally require appropriate enablers for them to start up and develop and grow …

We identify the causal effect of gender bias on access to finance. We extract an exogenous measure of gender bias from … survey responses by descendants of US immigrants on questions about the role of women in society. We then investigate a … detailed dataset on 6,000 small business firms from 17 countries and find that in countries with higher gender bias, female …

between gender and culture in shaping women’s entrepreneurship. We provide framework for women’s entrepreneurship and culture …Women’s entrepreneurship is increasingly important for creating new jobs and contributing to the social and economic … growth of their societies, yet the interplay and nuances of women’s entrepreneurship and culture are currently understudied …

reduce women's likelihood of being an entrepreneur in a one-sided way. We find that, in aggregate, gender differences in … entrepreneurs. We use detailed survey data from Sweden to study to what extent this gender gap can be explained by gender … differences in personality. We show that women have markedly different psyche than men (11 out of 14 traits differ), and that …

. We focus on the rise of female entrepreneurship in Serbia and collect an extensive biographical dataset of women, who … took part in privatization. Although women enjoyed the same de jure rights as men, they faced a number of informal … restrictions such as i) patriarchal values, limiting the role of women in the society and ii) occupations in low-wage sectors …