Although the gender gap in entrepreneurs' success rates to secure funding is staggering, we know little about its … comprehensive data of 4,893 interactions from the popular US television show Shark Tank, we test whether gender match with … with female (rather than male) entrepreneurs, while no systematic gender preferences emerge for male investors. This result …

positions, but a focus on gender differences in promotions provides only a partial explanation. We consider the life-cycle of … executive employment, which allows for a full characterization of the gender composition of executive management. We establish …

the existence of a gender gap in self-promotion and its causal link with modesty norms. Using a novel experiment, we show … across gender is determined by women's social-image concerns of being perceived as immodest and not because of an underlying … leads to an increase in self-promotion by women and, (ii) contributes to a reduction in the gender gap in self …

and 2011, we decompose the well-established gender gap in entrepreneurship. We show that female-led ventures are 63 … significant portion of the gap (65 percent) stems from gender differences in initial startup orientation, with women being less …