women entrepreneurs consider firm growth a top priority for their emerging firms. These a priori ideas about growth and firm …Most extant research shows that female entrepreneurs are less likely to grow large firms and, in fact, don't want to … grow their firms as large as male entrepreneurs do. This study of 191 nascent entrepreneurs finds that neither men nor …

female entrepreneurship and various institutional factors, including women's financial inclusion, the gender gap in education … proprietorships are more frequently used by female entrepreneurs, only three economies have similar or equal number of women business … owners relative to men. The gap in female entrepreneurship is especially apparent in low-income economies, where women are …

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 …