A striking fact about entrepreneurship is that the number of male entrepreneurs greatly exceed the number of female … entrepreneurs. We use detailed survey data from Sweden to study to what extent this gender gap can be explained by gender … differences in personality. We show that women have markedly different psyche than men (11 out of 14 traits differ), and that …

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 … business sizes. We also highlight the agency of women entrepreneurs in influencing their spatial-institutional contexts. …