Closing the gap: Understanding and encouraging female entrepreneurship

Abstract

Closing the gap: Understanding and encouraging female entrepreneurship Dr Elizabeth R. Moore, Head of Leadership at The University of Law Business School, provides a comprehensive analysis on bridging the gender gap to welcome more female entrepreneurship. Over the past two decades, women globally have begun to edge slightly closer to men in filling managerial and C-suite positions in many industries. There is one sector, however, that has failed to gain the advances made across other industries – this is the area of entrepreneurship. In the UK, the numbers have improved slightly. According to The Rose Review, ‘In 2022, women in the UK established over 150,000 new companies – more than twice as many as in 2018. Our findings show that 16 to 25-year-old women founded nearly 17,500 businesses in 2022, a figure that’s more than 22 times greater than in 2018. All-female-led companies represented 20% of all businesses in the UK in 2022, up from 16% in 2018.’ (The Alison Rose Review of Female Entrepreneurship, February, 2023).