Female entrepreneurship to date represents a key component of the business sector
worldwide as, in 2012 more than 187 million out of 400 million entrepreneurs were women …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand women's approaches to acquiring
financial and other resources is essential for closing the entrepreneurship gender gap. In …

In the present study, we conduct a discourse analysis on a set of longitudinal observations of
government venture capitalists' decisions to identify how gender stereotypes are socially …

This article presents an overarching review of the evidence regarding enterprise diversity. It
discusses the context of ethnic minorities and women in enterprise and summarises …

Purpose–This paper aims to contribute to the understanding of the factors that influence
small to medium‐sized enterprise (SME) performance and particularly, growth …

In this study, we examine whether female entrepreneurs are held to a different standard than
male entrepreneurs in obtaining financing from banks. To test this idea, we draw from the …

From 2021 onwards, female entrepreneurship is expected to grow very substantially as a
result of the Covid-19 pandemic. The introduction of teleworking and staggered hours in …

In this paper we study the relevance of the gender of the contracting parties involved in
lending. We show that female entrepreneurs face tighter credit availability, even though they …

Most of the customers of microfinance institutions are female. But do men and women
benefit from the same credit conditions? We investigate this issue by presenting an original …

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