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Decent Work and Economic Growth pp 1–9Cite as

Gender Inequality and Female Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries

Part of the Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals book series (ENUNSDG)

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Developing economies; Female entrepreneurship; Gender equality; Women and entrepreneurship; Women in business; Women’s economic empowerment

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Gender inequality refers to differences between males and females. Female entrepreneurship occurs when women engage in venture creation. Female entrepreneurship may be a route to women’s socioeconomic advancement in developing countries but this relies on the use of gender and context-sensitive measures to gauge success, as well as the presence of institutional support that facilitates women’s equitable access to the resources they need to start-up, grow, and sustain their business ventures.

Introduction

Gender inequality is one of the oldest and most pervasive forms of inequality in the world. It denies women their voices, devalues their work, and makes women’s positions unequal to men’s. Despite some significant progress to change this in recent years, in no country do women have economic equality with men, and women are...

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  1. Staffordshire Business School, Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent, UK

    Tolulope Olarewaju

  2. Aston Business School, Aston University, Birmingham, UK

    Julia Fernando

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    Prof. Dr. Walter Leal Filho

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  3. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo, Brazil

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Olarewaju, T., Fernando, J. (2020). Gender Inequality and Female Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Lange Salvia, A., Wall, T. (eds) Decent Work and Economic Growth. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71058-7_92-1

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