Abstract Research Summary This article examines whether the Affordable Care Act (ACA)
health insurance reform reduced the gender gap in science, technology, engineering, and …

This study explores how female professionals engage in starting their own businesses,
known as professional entrepreneurship. In particular, this study specifies what factors foster …

This study investigates the gender gap in entrepreneurship in the technology industry.
Digitization has created vast economic opportunities in the technology sector and has …

This article develops and empirically evaluates an institutional theory of gender inequalities
in business start-up, ownership, and growth orientation. I argue that in contexts in which …

This article theorizes and evaluates the relationship between inflexible organizational
practices, family factors, and gendered pathways into entrepreneurship. Using novel survey …

While it is generally understood that a gender gap exists in science, technology,
engineering, and math (STEM) fields, less research has been done on women …

This paper focuses on women's entrepreneurship policy as a core component of the
entrepreneurial ecosystem. We use a systematic literature review (SLR) approach to …

Purpose Gender equality levels opportunities for men and women and reduces the initial
capital constraints women often face, and yet as entrepreneurship opportunities for women …

This dissertation addresses the puzzle of why men are approximately two times more likely
than women to be business owners in most industrialized nations after accounting for …

Most of the previous literature examining health insurance and entrepreneurship focused on
the effects of provisions of health insurance coverage on the decision to start or end self …