Women Entrepreneurship as A Response to Gender Discrimination

Entrepreneurship as a Utility Maximizing Response

We develop a utility-maximization model to explain why some choose to be entrepreneurs while others prefer employment. The individual’s utility from any occupation is assumed to depend on income, work effort, risk bearing, independence, and other working conditions of that occupation. The individual chooses the occupation and career path that maximizes utility. We demonstrate that the incentive...

The Role of Alienation, Gender Discrimination, and Stigma in excluding Women Prisoners from Interpersonal Interactions

Introduction: The lived experience in prison is a situation that places women at greater risk of social exclusion more than any other social experience and imposes particular dimensions of social, cultural, and family deprivation. Thus, the current research tries to assess the effect of sociocultural factors on the social exclusion of women prisoners. Methods: The method used in this study is s...

Entry regulation as a barrier to entrepreneurship

Using a comprehensive database of European firms, we study the effect of market entry regulations on the creation of new limited-liability firms, the average size of entrants, and the growth of incumbent firms. We find that costly regulations hamper the creation of new firms, especially in industries that should naturally have high entry. These regulations also force new entrants to be see fron...

Agewell Study Gender Discrimination among Older Women in India

ETHIOPIA: Double Discrimination - Gender Violations of Minority Women

Further violations to the rights of minority and rural women run rampant throughout the nation, compounding the already discriminatory environment. There is a critical discrepancy between the number of health facilities and medical practitioners amongst rural and urban areas of the country, with a particular shortage in services for Somali women living in the Ogaden region. In addition, Somali ...