ABSTRACT
A detailed empirical study of how small business owners finance their enterprises, this volume compares the experiences of women with those of men. The author redresses an over-reliance on subjective and anecdotal evidence of discrimination in this area with a controlled study of forty matched pairs of male/female owners and their strategies for raising finances. The research reveals the importance of adopting a theoretical framework in which the role of gender in the financing of small businesses is considered, and the practical implications for female entrepreneurs, banks and policy-makers.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|25 pages
The growth and characteristics of female entrepreneurship
chapter 2|36 pages
The financing of women-owned businesses
An empirical overview and theoretical framework
chapter 3|32 pages
Research into the financing of women-owned businesses
Methodological considerations
chapter 4|26 pages
Raising finance
The use of and attitudes towards sources of small business finance