The Persistent Influence of Gender Stereotypes in Social Entrepreneurial Financing

Yi Zhao, Jina Lee and Cheryl Ellenwood

Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, 2024, vol. 15, issue 3, 811-832

Abstract: Social enterprises appear to offer innovative solutions for empowering women in entrepreneurship and achieving gender equality. This research, however, finds that female social entrepreneurs remain disadvantaged relative to their male counterparts during social entrepreneurial financing. Although this female-male disparity becomes diminished when ventures indicate more social value orientation, the results show that this is because more social value orientation reduces the funding to male founders but has no apparent effect on female founders. These results contribute to research on social entrepreneurship from a gender lens and call for greater attention to gender assumptions about social entrepreneurship in practice.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2021.2004206

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