The European Women’s Lobby, the largest umbrella organisation of women’s associations in the European Union, working to promote women’s rights and equality between women and men took a challange of conducting a research in 10 european countries about Women’s social enterpreneurship in Europe.

The final result of their research is the report presenting a comparative analysis of the studied countries:Bulgaria, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom , along with recommendations for EU policy makers in terms of women’s social enterpreneurship.

If you are interested in finding out more about women’s motivation to establish a social enterprise and about barriers they had to face, this publication can give you a clear answer for those question.

Here you can find full version of the report as well mini reports from each studies country:

Resource Library