Women-Led Enterprises in Turkey
The Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Surveys 2013 (BEEPS orEnterprise Surveys) conducted by the World Bank provides new opportunities to betterunderstand obstacles to female entrepreneurship in Turkey and thereby develop morefocused...
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| Format: | Report |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/820221479289934040/Women-led-enterprises-in-Turkey http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25409 |
| Summary: | The Business Environment and Enterprise
Performance Surveys 2013 (BEEPS orEnterprise Surveys)
conducted by the World Bank provides new opportunities to
betterunderstand obstacles to female entrepreneurship in
Turkey and thereby develop morefocused policies to improve
it. The last BEEPS for Turkey, conducted between January
2013 and May 2014, covers 1,344 enterprises that employ at
least 5 people and operate in industry or services all
around Turkey. Those who are identified as “the top
manager”,“the main decision maker” and “owner/one of the
owners (by any share in the capital)of the enterprise” in
the survey are referred to as the “leader of the enterprise”
for the purpose of this study. It is well documented that
participation of women in economic life in Turkey is too
lowboth compared to that of men in the country and that of
women in countries of similarper capita income. This gender
gap in economic participation is observed not only
inparticipation in the labor market, but also in
entrepreneurship. Although women in most countries lag
behind men in entrepreneurship, the gap is particularly
large in Turkey.Achieving gender equity in economic life is
one of the main areas covered by the Turkey Country
Partnership Strategy of the World Bank Group. One of the
projects that the Bank has been implementing together with
the Ministry of Family and Social Policies tothis end is the
“Increasing Women’s Access to Economic Opportunities”. This
study aims to contribute to the project by identifying and
analyzing gender aspects ofentrepreneurship in Turkey. In
addition to the main survey that includes questions about
the business environment, a separate module on gender was
included in the 2013 Turkey survey. The purpose of the
gender module was to get a better understanding of the
profiles and performance of enterprises led by women as well
as the profiles of what we define as womencompany leaders.
The outline of this study is as follows: The second section
compares profiles ofentrepreneurs led by men versus those
led by women. So, the basic characteristics ofenterprises
are compared by gender of the leader. The third section
compares theprofiles of the company leaders themselves. The
forth section analyzes performances ofenterprises by gender
of the leader and finally the fifth section analyses the
perceptionof business environment constraints by gender of
the business leader. |
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