IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/eurchp/978-3-031-14395-3_5.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

It’s Not Just Physical: Gender and Bias in Equity Crowdfunding

In: Eurasian Business and Economics Perspectives

Author

Listed:
  • Sukanya Ayatakshi-Endow

    (Bournemouth University)

  • Martyn Polkinghorne

    (Bournemouth University)

  • Uchenna Okafor

    (Bournemouth University)

Abstract

This research considers if equity investors on crowdfunding platforms display the same bias against women as can be seen in venture capital alternatives. In this study we build a conceptual model in which we argue that increasing the number of women in a team is often associated with a decrease in funding success. We test this model using a dataset of 397 campaigns from a leading UK-based equity platform to elaborate further on the issues around gender and its impact upon entrepreneurial finance in the context of equity crowdfunding. From this research study, we conclude that the aggregated gender within the language used in the investors’ comments has an influence upon the success of the funding obtained from equity investors. We demonstrate that not only does the physical gender of the team, and the gender of the primary signatory, influence the final decision, but also any gendered nuances in the language within the campaign can have a significant impact. The findings of this study therefore have an important role in helping us to understand why the size and frequency of equity crowdfunding achieved by women are lower when compared to the success achieved by men.

Suggested Citation

  • Sukanya Ayatakshi-Endow & Martyn Polkinghorne & Uchenna Okafor, 2022. "It’s Not Just Physical: Gender and Bias in Equity Crowdfunding," Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics, in: Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin & Hakan Danis & Ender Demir & Virginia Bodolica (ed.), Eurasian Business and Economics Perspectives, pages 81-110, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:eurchp:978-3-031-14395-3_5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-14395-3_5
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:eurchp:978-3-031-14395-3_5. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.