Using a comprehensive database of firms in Western and Eastern Europe, the authors study how the business environment …

of occupational segregation, the program had a surprising effect. For women who at baseline were implicitly biased … against associating women with professional attributes, the likelihood that the program induced switching into the information … and communications technology sector was more than three times as large than that of unbiased women. These results suggest …

This study presents results from a randomized evaluation of two labor market interventions targeted to young women aged … designed to simultaneously relieve credit and human capital constraints; a second treatment provided women with an unrestricted … the second year after treatment. The results are consistent with a model in which savings constraints prevent women from …

majority of the analyzed economies, less than one-third of new limited liability company owners are women. Although sole … proprietorships are more frequently used by female entrepreneurs, only three economies have similar or equal number of women business … owners relative to men. The gap in female entrepreneurship is especially apparent in low-income economies, where women are …

, women-owned businesses significantly underperform those owned by men. This paper identifies the main constraints that women … does not work to address the underlying constraints to the performance of women-owned firms. Moreover, it identifies … advance women's economic empowerment in Africa …