Introduction

Over the years, women entrepreneurship dynamics have gained attention worldwide, and today, women entrepreneurs are often the focus of political and also academic debate. This is mainly because women entrepreneurship is associated with economic growth, in terms of creating new jobs and in terms of contribution to the gross domestic product (GDP), pursuing gender equality and alleviating poverty. Accordingly, a plethora of national and supranational organisations, such as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the European Union (EU), have developed programmes devoted to attracting and supporting women in entrepreneurship with the aim of channelling knowledge investments into productivity and growth. At the same time, academic attention towards this issue has notably increased to the point that we can say that academic research has reached a maturity stage. Notwithstanding, as underlined by Henry et al. (2021), there is the urgency to develop what can be considered as a ‘broadening perspective’ on women entrepreneurship, encompassing the richness connected to the heterogeneity and diversity of the analysis of specific domains that are crucial not only at the socio-economic level but also in terms of theory building.