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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-4366

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Report

Disciplines

Business and Management.

Publication Details

Prepared by Professor Thomas M. Cooney On behalf of the WEgate Project.

Abstract

Entrepreneurship is crucial to economic development, promoting social integration and reducing inequalities and women have made an enormous effort in recent decades to be present in the world of entrepreneurship. However, women across the world have been and still are disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, reversing gains in gender equality. Women-led businesses have been more negatively impacted economically, mainly because they trade in sectors hardest hit by the pandemic, such as recreational services and accommodation and food. In addition, there is a problem with understanding the term when referring to women entrepreneurs. There is still a wide range of definitions and a lack of legal distinction between the different types of businesses created, compounded by all existing datasets lacking genderspecific data. Insufficient standardized and country-comparable data on female entrepreneurship, difficulties in in-depth understanding and analysis of the different dimensions and factors determining gender gaps.

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