Gender and Entrepreneurship in the U.K.

Paper Summary:

The woman who heads her own company is no longer something exceptional. This paper shows, however, that there is still a disparity in the number of entrepreneurs and businesses run and owned by men compared to women in the United Kingdom. It also shows that a definition of entrepreneurship does not reveal any logical or innate reason for this disparity.

Paper Outline
Introduction and Definition of Entrepreneurship
Comparison between Male and Female Entrepreneurs
Women as Entrepreneurs
Factors in the Advancement or Retardation of Women Entrepreneurs
Pros and Cons
Bibliography

From the Paper:

"One of the main factors that militate against women launching their own business concerns is lack of access to the necessary capital. According to IBM-sponsored research, published by Strathclyde University in collaboration with the National Foundation for Women Business Owners, there are specific problem areas in terms of the financing process. This is especially the case with "raising start-up finance and using guarantees to support external finance as well as obtaining adequate on-going finance." Another area that was pointed out was the development of effective relationships with bankers; "recent research has sought to determine if banks operate unwitting or deliberate differential lending policies with respect to female borrowers.""

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