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Five ways that policy could close the gender gap in entrepreneurship
- Source: International Trade Forum, Volume 2017, Issue 4, Dec 2017, p. 10 - 11
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- 17 May 2021
Abstract
A new report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the European Commission – ‘The Missing Entrepreneurs 2017 – Policies for Inclusive Entrepreneurship’ – shows that in 2016 men were an average 1.7 times more likely to be self-employed than women. Among OECD countries this gap ranged from 1.1 times in Mexico and Chile to 3.1 times in Ireland. Similarly, the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor – an international household survey on entrepreneurship – estimates that men are 1.6 times more likely to be new business owners.
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