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Women entrepreneurs in France

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  • Virginie Vial

    (KEDGE Business School [Marseille])

  • Katia Richomme Huet

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Despite supposedly supportive institutions and quasi-gender equality in employment rate, only 30% of French entrepreneurs are women. Using the 5Ms framework, we illustrate and explain the entrepreneurship gender gap in the French institutional context. To this end, we worked with a quantitative study using the large SINE database, which contains information on 48,251 new entrepreneurs. Although women are still mostly confined to traditionally gendered sectors and start smaller projects despite seemingly unconstrained access to finance, they outperform men in terms of management but fail to get outside support. However, mothers conversely struggle to get finance but innovate in sales, products and service. Our results call for a redefinition of classical concepts and measurements in entrepreneurship.

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  • Virginie Vial & Katia Richomme Huet, 2017. "Women entrepreneurs in France," Post-Print hal-03628415, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03628415
    DOI: 10.1504/ijesb.2017.10001192
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