Principle - 100% Inclusivity

  • Targeting gender barriers and obstacles for women entrepreneurs with a view to fostering wider inclusivity 
  • Promoting inclusive and diverse entrepreneurship in the system and in networks (cooperation and equality of all)
  • Raising awareness of hidden biases.

Documents & Articles

Women’s Forum (2021) Inclusive Sourcing and Women’s Entrepreneurship

Emphasises the importance of women’s entrepreneurship and provides some tools to boost the necessary change in order to enhance inclusivity.
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GEM (2022) Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Releases New Research Highlighting Women's Entrepreneurship Trends Across the Globe

Startup rates for women dropped by 15% from 2019 to 2020, and held constant in 2021. Women also experienced sharper declines than men in their intentions to start a business within three years and overall startup rates in 2020, but not in upper-middle income countries.
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Tait & Jean-Baptiste (2022) Accelerating Women Entrepreneurs: A Handbook for Practitioners. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GMBH

An interactive resource designed to equip you with the knowledge and strategies required to meet the needs of women entrepreneurs. It can also be used as a guide to reflect on how to make your programme more accessible, inclusive and equitable for other genders as well.
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Frontier Incubators & Asia Women Impact Fund (2019) Gender Lens Incubation and Acceleration Toolkit: Supporting intermediaries to be more inclusive of all genders

An interactive resource that equips intermediaries with the mindset, strategies, and frameworks to amend and improve both the organisation and program to increase accessibility and inclusivity of all genders.
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Pimpa (2021) Overcoming Gender Gaps in Entrepreneurship Education and Training

Entrepreneurship education and training are essential for female entrepreneurs who juggle family expectations, personal life, and new ventures at the same time. The article outlines a novel approach in synergizing gender issues, training, and entrepreneurship skills.hange in order to enhance inclusivity.
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Daly (2021) Getting There: Strategies to promote gender diversity in business

Enterprise Ireland outline the strategies that they are taking in Ireland to improve gender diversity in business. Back in 2011, only 7% of High-Potential Start-Ups (HPSUs) had a woman on the founding team and after an intervention it rose to 24% in 2020.
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Turban et al. (2019) When Gender Diversity Makes Firms More Productive

Does diversity make a company more productive? Some researchers argue that gender diversity leads to more innovative thinking and signals to investors that a company is competently run. Conflicting research indicates that gender diversity can sometimes harm firm performance.
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WEF (2021) Why empowering female social entrepreneurs is key to economic recovery

The World Economic Forum’s Gender Gap Report is discussed in this articles, it discusses the challenges and opportunities related to gender based inclusivity.
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Wilkinson (2021) Mind The Gap – How Today’s Female Entrepreneurs Are Tackling Gender Inequality

Investigates the potential reasons behind the gap. Reports show that female entrepreneurs are much more likely to cite ‘personal reasons’ when closing their business than actual failure or bankruptcy. Lack of childcare and domestic support, as well as major struggles with funding, are forcing women out of work – even when they’re the boss.
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Workshops / Courses / Online tools / Quizzes

Workshop: Women in Entrepreneurship

While there has been growth in the number of women entrepreneurs in the United States, the percentage of women - particularly women of colour - continues to be significantly lower than that of men.
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Workshop: EU Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (2019) European Entrepreneurship Education Network: workshop on women entrepreneurship

Workshop organised in the framework of the peer-learning activities of the European Entrepreneurship Education Network to discover the challenges discussed and the solutions proposed by the participants.
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Webinar: Unlocking potential of women entrepreneurs: Provision of gender inclusive support services

International Labour Organisation's (ILO) project, discussed the key role of financial and business development service providers in unlocking women entrepreneurs’ potential.
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Free course: The Bank of America Institute for Women's Entrepreneurship at Cornell

A collaboration between Bank of America and Cornell University to deliver an online learning portal that provides women entrepreneurs with the skills, knowledge and resources to build, manage, and scale a successful business.
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Free course: University of Exeter: Understanding Gender Inequality

The course helps to build understanding the nature and consequences of gender inequality at work, in the family context, and in the media. The University of Exeter brings an interdisciplinary perspective to the course that will build your awareness of gender issues and the ways to tackle it.
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Tool: Orser, B., & Elliott, C. (2020). Gender-Smart Entrepreneurship Education & Training Plus (GEET+). Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa

Toolkit of resources to support inclusive entrepreneurship education and training. Ground-breaking report to strengthen the design and delivery of entrepreneurship courses and programs.
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Tool: Using Digital Solutions to Address Barriers to Female Entrepreneurship.

It provides practical guidance to analyse, design, and measure technology-enabled solutions to advance women’s entrepreneurship. Identifies key constraints to female entrepreneurship and it also lays out intervention recommendations.
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Tool: Gender: How to design an inclusive training that offers all entrepreneurs a chance to shine

Tools to encourage student collaboration. Includes self-assessment style questions and prompts for designing and delivery of the content and classroom interaction/facilitation.
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Quiz: OECD. Supporting women in entrepreneurship Self-assessment

Framework to evaluate the culture of fostering women entrepreneurship support in policies, governments, institutions, and support units.
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Networks & Initiatives

Advisory: Value for women

Offers holistic support to investors to design, implement, and evaluate the success of gender strategies and action plans in diverse sectors, tailored to their existing work, their markets, and their stakeholders.
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Initiative: Impact Hub network

Inclusive and sustainable innovation at scale - Building better business. Designing impactful solutions. (re)imagining the future. This is what our community of impact-driven entrepreneurs, creators, innovators and intrapreneurs does; taking action – today – to create a better tomorrow for people and planet.
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Agency: European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE)

The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) is an EU agency working to make gender equality a reality in the EU and beyond. For this, it provides research, data and good practices. It shares its knowledge and online resources and supports the EU to address gender inequalities in Europe and beyond.
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Network: SYNERGY

Network against Gender-based and Domestic Violence brings together governmental and non-governmental stakeholders from different countries cooperating to prevent and combat gender-based and domestic violence. Aims to contribute to a more equal Europe - socially and economically - and to strengthen relations between the beneficiary countries and Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.
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Videos

EIT (2022) Break The Bias: Powering Women Entrepreneurs

Community of women innovators, entrepreneurs and students forging a more inclusive and diverse network of innovation for Europe and beyond. The EIT empowers our community members to #BreaktheBias and take action to accelerate the path towards equality.
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European People's Party Group (EPP Group) (2022). Promoting Women’s Entrepreneurship in the EU

Female entrepreneurship is an untapped source of economic growth and jobs for the EU. Time to boost women’s entrepreneurial talent to eradicate the existing gender gap while strengthening Europe’s internal market and competitiveness.
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WEConnect International (2021) Bias in Value Chains

Describing the content - an online video on how bias is integrated in the entrepreneurial supply chain.Women-owned businesses from around the globe as to the challenges of bias that they often face.
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Institute for Gender and the Economy Workshop on Gender, Race and Entrepreneurship

Watch a summary from the six-week virtual workshop series hosted by the Institute for Gender and the Economy (GATE) in partnership with the Government of Canada-funded Women’s Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub (WEKH).
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Catherine Smith - The Future of Female Entrepreneurship: Girlhood Pipeline

If we’re thinking about how to empower women to lead purposeful, driven, and forward looking professional and personal lives, we need to look back in time to understand how we can actively engage the potential of girls. 
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Wendy Knight Agard - From the Inside Out: diversity, inclusion, belonging

The issue of inclusion and diversity is on the minds of leaders everywhere. Wendy offers insight into diversity from the inside out, what it means, how to become conscious of it and how we can move forward on the path to true acceptance.
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