{"id":33309,"date":"2022-07-15T17:55:04","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T14:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/when.org.gr\/?post_type=nvm_research&#038;p=33309"},"modified":"2025-08-06T14:25:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T11:25:53","slug":"the-gender-gap-in-financing","status":"publish","type":"nvm_research","link":"https:\/\/when.org.gr\/en\/research\/the-gender-gap-in-financing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gender Gap in Financing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Start-ups with at least one woman in their founding team have drawn only 6% of the total funding that has been channeled into the Greek start-up ecosystem, while 62% of women finance their start-ups themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The above and other important findings in relation to the gender gap in business financing in Greece are reflected in the recent research conducted by <strong>WHEN<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/when.org.gr\/en\/women-on-top-is-becoming-when\/\">previously known as Women On Top<\/a>) with the support of the <strong>British Embassy in Athens.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The gender gap in financing is a global phenomenon, although it responds with different intensity in each economy. In Greece, the relevant data remains incomplete and sporadic. However, we now know that the majority of women finance their business themselves at the start and use loans at a much lower rate than men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through interviews with representatives of financial institutions, credit institutions, research organizations and incubators, WHEN's research reaches useful conclusions both about the characteristics and causes, as well as about possible measures to address the gap, measures that could increase by 26% the annual global GDP, 15% the overall business performance and $5.9 trillion in market value, as well as adding $160 trillion in additional human capital to the international economy. The study was kindly supported by of the British Embassy in Athens within the framework of the program \"Promoting equality in the workplace\".<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research on the gender gap in business financing in Greece, conducted by WHEN with the support of the British Embassy in Athens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":36851,"template":"","research-category":[],"class_list":["post-33309","nvm_research","type-nvm_research","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Gender Gap in Financing &#8226; WHEN<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Research on the gender gap in business financing in Greece, conducted by WHEN with the support of the British Embassy in Athens.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/when.org.gr\/en\/research\/the-gender-gap-in-financing\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Gender Gap in Financing &#8226; 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