From research: Gender aspects of entrepreneurship

Cowling and Dvouletý (2023) published their study in the International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal investigating the topic of gender aspects of entrepreneurship. The authors studied the effects of the largest public policy intervention in the United Kingdom aimed explicitly at fostering new business start-ups, the Start-Up Loan (SUL) scheme.

With an average female representation of 40% over the last decade on the SUL scheme, which is significantly higher than in the UK business population, a very positive and unintended consequence of the scheme is that tens of thousands of female entrepreneurs were given the support that, in its absence, may have prevented or discouraged them from starting their new business.

Furthermore, females participating in the SUL scheme have lower hazard rates than males. More information about the results is available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/376229575_When_a_non-gendered_start-up_policy_delivers_for_female_entrepreneurs_Evidence_from_the_UK_start-up_loan_scheme