Shattering the second glass ceiling: an empirical study on women entrepreneurs in Egypt

IF 3.1 Q2 BUSINESS

International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship Pub Date : 2022-08-08 DOI:10.1108/ijge-07-2021-0109

Sarah El-Fiky

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to analyze women's entrepreneurship in Egypt by examining their drivers, motives and challenges while applying a gender-lens perspective. This research tries to close the gaps in previous research and determine the impact of systematic gendered policies in empowering women's entrepreneurship and in return, aid in the overall economic growth and development nation-wide. This paper addresses one main question: How can the Egyptian government empower women entrepreneurs through key policy interventions?Design/methodology/approachThe research paper is based on quantitative methodology using three sets of the latest data available from Egypt's Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Report for 2019 and 2018, in addition to the Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey of 2018. It examines the probability for women to become entrepreneurs in Egypt's current ecosystem. This allowed for a better contextualization and understanding of the nature of developing Egyptian female-led entrepreneurial ventures.FindingsThe findings of this research emphasized the importance of the existence of policies for training, networking and educational programs tailored for women. In addition to, the unique needs for women entrepreneurs when it comes to funding and applying for loans. Such needs can determine the amounts of funding given out to women, while setting out a repayment policy that is well-designed for women entrepreneurs, ensuing a further discussion of the policies and their implications.Originality/valueThis paper uses and incorporates a variety of data sets that are very focused and specialized in the Egyptian context. Through which the paper aims to inform and analyze the current environment, challenges and opportunities that women entrepreneurs are operating – in Egypt. In addition, this paper provides a set of actionable policy recommendations to strengthen the government's role in empowering women entrepreneurs in Egypt.

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打破第二层玻璃天花板:对埃及女企业家的实证研究

本文的目的是在运用性别视角的同时，通过检查其驱动因素、动机和挑战来分析埃及女性的创业精神。这项研究试图缩小以前研究中的差距，并确定系统的性别政策对赋予妇女创业能力的影响，从而有助于全国的全面经济增长和发展。本文解决了一个主要问题:埃及政府如何通过关键政策干预赋予女企业家权力?该研究报告采用定量方法，采用了埃及2019年和2018年全球创业监测报告中的三组最新数据，以及2018年埃及劳动力市场小组调查。它考察了女性在埃及当前生态系统中成为企业家的可能性。这有助于更好地将埃及妇女领导的创业企业的性质纳入背景和理解。这项研究的结果强调了为女性量身定制的培训、网络和教育项目政策的重要性。此外，女性企业家在融资和申请贷款方面的独特需求。这种需要可以决定提供给妇女的资金数额，同时制定一项为妇女企业家精心设计的还款政策，然后进一步讨论这些政策及其影响。原创性/价值本文使用并整合了各种数据集，这些数据集在埃及的背景下非常集中和专业。通过这种方式，本文旨在告知和分析埃及女企业家正在经营的当前环境、挑战和机遇。此外，本文还提供了一套可操作的政策建议，以加强政府在赋予埃及女企业家权力方面的作用。

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International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship BUSINESS-

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7.40

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15.60%

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期刊介绍： Launched in 2009, the International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship (IJGE) aims to facilitate the natural evolution of the field of gender and entrepreneurship by drawing together the very best research contributions from around the world. The journal seeks to: -Provide a dedicated publication outlet for high calibre, international research of interest to scholars, entrepreneurs and policy makers in the field of gender and entrepreneurship -Offer a unique perspective on the practice of gender and entrepreneurship by including sections dedicated to practitioner and policy content -Support a more consistent global approach to the presentation of research in the field -Platform the work of dynamic young researchers and those who are in a position to offer new perspectives on this particular research area -Enable those active in the area as researchers, educators, trainers, practitioners, support personnel and policy makers to keep up to date with the field on an international level. The coverage of the journal includes, but is not limited to: Entrepreneurship, Female/Women’s entrepreneurship , Business, Management, Strategy, Gender, Economics, Internationalization, Marketing.