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This report presents insights on female entrepreneurs and what is holding them back. To gain a better understanding of factors that influence female entrepreneurial activities, this analysis looks at three different surveys, the EIB Investment Survey (EIBIS) 2021, the EIBIS Startup and Scaleup Survey 2019 and the EBRD-EIB-World Bank Group Enterprise Survey, which includes structural information on firms, and as part of a follow-up collected information on the impact of the COVID-19 shock. The unique combination of data helps shed light on structural gaps, obstacles women entrepreneurs face and the recent impact of the pandemic.
In some EU regions women are able to flourish, while in others they languish behind.
This paper presents two regional indices: the Female Achievement Index and the Female Disadvantage Index. They reveal in which regions women are achieving more and in which women are at a disadvantage compared to men. The two indices are based on 33 indicators grouped into seven domains. The paper shows that, on average, women in more developed regions are able to achieve more and are at less of a disadvantage, while most women in less developed regions face big challenges.
This study investigates the topic of gender equality in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), both in companies and more broadly within society.
In this study, however, McKinsey’s analysis focuses on the women’s empowerment and the economic activity of the approximately 67 million women in seven countries in CEE: Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Ukraine.