TF5 – 2030 Agenda and Development Cooperation
THE ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS IN A POST-COVID WORLD
ABSTRACT
Women across the world are disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, reversing gains in gender equality made in recent decades. Women-led businesses have been more negatively impacted economically, especially in sectors hardest hit by the pandemic. The G20 must take urgent actions to promote gender equality by economically empowering women-led businesses in the post-COVID world. Public-private sector schemes that accelerate technology adoption, innovation and digital skills training for women entrepreneurs and strengthen financing and fiscal assistance for women-led businesses should be actively supported and encouraged.
AUTHORS
Gabriela Rigoni
Universidad Nacional de La Plata; and Universidad
de Buenos Aires (UBA)
Keith Herrmann
Women’s Economic Imperative, WEI Forward
Angela C. Lyons
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Betty Wilkinson
Financial Sector Deepening (FSD), Zambia
Josephine Kass-Hanna
Saint Joseph University of Beirut
Dinah Bennett
International Consultants for Entrepreneurship
and Enterprise
José Stracquadaini
Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)
Margo Thomas
Women’s Economic Imperative