Abstract
Drawing on the social entrepreneurship literature and utilizing a large Brazilian database of community-based enterprises, we examine how gender composition of founding teams influences the businesses’ initial motivations, ongoing achievements, and subsequent challenges, and whether they tend to weigh on the social or economic side. Moreover, we examine the effect of gender leadership on the implementation of family-friendly policies. Whereas women entrepreneurs are traditionally recognized to be more social oriented than male entrepreneurs, is not clear where those differences lie. Our results show that while the percentage of women in the founding teams has a positive influence on social motivation and achievements of the business, but not on social challenges. We also find, that the presence of women in the founding teams has a positive influence on the implementation of family-friendly policies.
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