This policy brief on women in entrepreneurship was produced by the OECD and the European Commission. It explores the … gender gap in entrepreneurship, the differences between male- and female-owned businesses, and the unique challenges that … that their policies help women to participate in the labour market. This policy brief is part of a series of documents …

Small business activity and female entrepreneurship have become increasingly important features of the UK economy since … that it is primarily single women that drive the well-established empirical relationship between personal wealth and … business start-ups. Therefore, public policies specifically targeted at relieving the liquidity constraints of women could help …

A striking fact about entrepreneurship is that the number of male entrepreneurs greatly exceed the number of female … differences in personality. We show that women have markedly different psyche than men (11 out of 14 traits differ), and that … reduce women's likelihood of being an entrepreneur in a one-sided way. We find that, in aggregate, gender differences in …

embeddedness of women entrepreneurs or the institutional environment for women's entrepreneurship. We contribute to the literature … institutional contexts for women's entrepreneurship and their intersections, as informed by entrepreneurship, gender and geography … context along a continuum of where entrepreneurship takes place and when this happens. Where context has been studied in …

. We focus on the rise of female entrepreneurship in Serbia and collect an extensive biographical dataset of women, who … female empowerment is female entrepreneurship; however, the literature on the emergence of female entrepreneurship is scarce … took part in privatization. Although women enjoyed the same de jure rights as men, they faced a number of informal …

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 … various interventions suggest the need for more precise targeting. The multiple constraints faced by women entrepreneurs …