Constructing Gender-responsive COVID-19 SME Recovery Measures
Abstract
The pandemic has unveiled fragilities of economic gains that women have
achieved, in part, because policies have not yet recognized the
particular needs of women entrepreneurs. Accordingly, this research
identifies parameters associated with good practices of
gender-responsive entrepreneurship policy. The parameters are then
applied to an analysis of three published feminist pandemic recovery
plans that seek to support gender-responsive recovery measures. The
study also employs entrepreneurial feminism as a theoretical framework
for examining this issue. The analysis identifies the extent to which
the parameters are embodied within these initiatives. A framework of
feminist entrepreneurship policy is constructed to help guide policy
development and implementation.