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Policy Brief "Entrepreneurship in Focus" | 2024 Financed maternity benefits for self-employed women?
Self-employed women may voluntarily insure themselves through their health insurance against a loss of earnings during the maternity protection period.
External publication | 2024 Legitimacy of women entrepreneurs: forced to behave according to rules?
Legitimacy is essential to ensure the continued existence of companies. Depending on whether stakeholders consider entrepreneurs’ behavior to be appropriate, they decide whether to provide entrepreneurs with resources.
External publication | 2024 How women-led businesses fared in the Covid-19 pandemic
The authors investigate how female-led businesses were impaired by the Covid-19 pandemic, to what extent they used support measures, and what operational measures they took to counter the consequences of the pandemic.

IfM-Materialien | 2024 Effects of institutional framework conditions and resource availability on the gender gap in self-employment – a systematic literature analysis
This study uses a systematic literature review of international publications to examine the effects of institutional framework conditions and the availability of resources on the gender gap in entrepreneurship.

Facts and figures | 2024 Maternity benefits for self-employed women
Self-employed women can voluntarily insure themselves against loss of income during the maternity protection period through health insurance. Around half of self-employed women of childbearing age are insured accordingly.