Female Entrepreneurship: From Women's Empowerment to Shared Value Creation

This paper is an investigation on female entrepreneurship, women's enterprise development and the opportunities to create shared value,. Enterprise development can make a significant contribution to women's empowerment and gender equality and has a key role in gender strategies. Thus, understanding these topics together has become important. Nevertheless, there is a lack of research regarding the combination of the concepts. The framework arose due the fact that, although women are making relevant advancements in entrepreneurship, yet, if compared to men, they lack access to finance, training, and rights, besides differing in terms of economic opportunities.