We use a representative sample of informal entrepreneurs in Madagascar to add new evidence on the magnitude of the … gender performance gap. After controlling for business and entrepreneur characteristics, female-owned businesses exhibit a …-employment raises the gap by 5 percentage points. We then investigate the role of sharing norms and gender-differentiated allocation of …

relation to gender and women, the focus has been on the influence of social contexts such as networks, family and household … 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 …

1. Entrepreneurship and Human Relations -- 2. Gender Dynamics And Leadership -- 3. Women Entrepreneurs in Business -- 4 …. Gender, Innovations, and Ecosystems -- 5. Learning from Experience. …This book addresses a blend of conceptual and applied discussions on women entrepreneurs with learning experience …