Purpose – This paper aims to explore the phenomenon of senior women managers leaving corporate organisations to start their own companies. Women's advancement to senior management roles is facilitated by the acquisition of human capital and social capital. Female ex-corporate managers leverage...

Ten countries have established quotas for female representation on publicly traded corporate and/or state-owned enterprise boards of directors, ranging from 33-50%, with various sanctions. Fifteen other countries have introduced non-binding gender quotas in their corporate governance codes...

The Female Entrepreneurship Index (FEI) seeks to identify which factors enable the flourishing of high potential female entrepreneurs — women who own and operate businesses that are innovative, market expanding, and export-oriented. Through their entrepreneurial activities, high-potential...