The Institute for Gender and the Economy (GATE) at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management promotes an understanding of gender inequalities and how they can be remedied—by people of all genders—in the world of business and, more broadly, in the economy. [...] Acknowledgements Authors We are grateful for the financial Hyeun Lee, PhD Sarah Kaplan, PhD support of the Government of Post-Doctoral Fellow, Institute for Director, Institute for Gender and Canada’s Women Entrepreneurship Gender and the Economy at the the Economy at the University Knowledge Hub. [...] and “demand-side” factors highlighting the struggle these entrepreneurs face in Work and family conditions obtaining funding and other resources.1,2,3 that shape entry into A 2013 review by Jennings and Brush documents many of these insights.4 We know entrepreneurship less, however, about how the supply side When looking at the dearth of women in and demand side interact and what kinds of the entr. [...] In a perform as well because they do not provide study of entrepreneurs in Togo, where the the same advantages of advice and networks majority of entrepreneurs operate in the that VC funding provides. [...] Part of the explanation for structural characteristics could predict the this could be found by understanding the lower likelihood of women’s entrepreneurship family and workplace conditions of women in the high-tech industry, compared to and diverse entrepreneurs.
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