Mary Ann Bolton Undergraduate Research Award
Award Winner
Recipient of the 2022 Mary Ann Bolton Undergraduate Research Award - Runner-up.
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Year of Award
2022 Award
Document Type
Open Access Paper
Keywords
Businesswomen--Bahrain; Credit--Bahrain; Capital--Bahrain;
Abstract
Entrepreneurship is essential to virtually every economy; however, Bahraini women face many challenges accessing business development. In particular, a major constraint for these women is their access to capital support. In 2020, the government signed a law prohibiting gender-based discrimination in access to credit to help the issue; nonetheless, its effectiveness has yet to be systematically examined. Using data from several sources, I test whether the law significantly affected the gender gap in borrowing for business purposes while controlling for other variables. Importantly, I find that women’s labor force participation is a significant factor in reducing the borrowing gap between men and women, and removing traveling restrictions on women positively affects their labor force participation. These results are robust across multiple regression models. Hence, a culture supporting women’s economic involvement is the foundation for their credit access.
Publication Date
2022
Award Sponsored by
Rod Library, University of Northern Iowa
Faculty Advisor
Brian Warby
Faculty Advisor 2
Evan Renfro
Department
Department of Political Science
Copyright
©2022 Sandra J. Thiman
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Thiman, Sandra J., "The Gender Bias Burden on Business: Women's Access to Credit in Bahrain" (2022). Mary Ann Bolton Undergraduate Research Award. 3.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/awards_bolton/3
