Women are taking a stronger and more robust role in some economies, though they still lag significantly behind men in others. While a greater proportion of men than women typically engage in TEA overall, in GEM 2019 there are three economies in which the female rate exceeds the male rate (Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Madagascar).
Male rates for early-stage entrepreneurial activity are highest in Chile (41%) and Ecuador (39%), and lowest in Italy (4%), Pakistan and Poland (both 6%). Female rates are highest in the same two countries, although their positions were reversed, with Ecuador at 34% and Chile at 32%. The Latin America & Caribbean region has the five highest rates of early-stage female entrepreneurship in the sample. The level of early-stage entrepreneurial activity exceeds 10% of the female adult population in 21 of the 50 economies in GEM 2019.
For more information, access the Global Report (Chapter 5, Demography is Not Destiny: Age, Gender and Entrepreneurial Activity; page 55).