Research briefs, news, and event recaps related to entrepreneurship.
Women-focused co-working spaces increase in Canada
Sarah Kaplan weighs in on women's only co-working spaces in Canada with CBC news.
Research briefs, news, and event recaps related to entrepreneurship.
Sarah Kaplan weighs in on women's only co-working spaces in Canada with CBC news.
This study argues that the concept of entrepreneurship, as it applies to women’s work, masks many of the uncertainties and contradictions that accompany being one’s own boss while working at home.
Sarah Kaplan speaks to The Globe and Mail about the prospect of a new "women's only" co-working space opening up in Toronto.
The subtle elimination of bias in hiring decisions (in this case, via lifelong exposure to gender diversity through raising daughters) is both good for its own sake, and for firm performance.
In honor of International Women's Day, we held a panel discussion on Women in STEM with Huda Idrees, Founder and CEO of Dot Health; Andrea Stairs, CEO of eBay Canada; Marisa Sterling, Assistant Dean, Inclusivity and Diversity at the Lassonde School of Engineering; Jessica Yamoah, Founder of Innovate Inclusion.
Why more women support female founders online and in underrepresented industries
Stanford Social Innovation Review
Sarah Kaplan and GATE post doc Rachael Goodman write about improving the effectiveness of women's empowerment programs by involving men. (Part 1 of a 5-part series with SSIR.)
How work-family conflict can segregate women into lower-status ventures and reinforce gender gaps in entrepreneurship.
Prof. Laura Doering is interviewed about bias in economic development, including microfinance in strategy + business
Sarah Kaplan is interviewed by Social Impact @ Wharton