March 2021 - The COVID-19 pandemic is having a profound shock on economies and labour markets around the world, and the impact of this crisis on women is stark. Women make up nearly 70% of the health workers on the frontlines against COVID-19, exposing them to a greater risk of infection. They also continue to do to up to ten times the amount of unpaid care work in households that men do, and face higher risks of economic insecurity. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, women were less active in entrepreneurship and the COVID-19 pandemic will likely exacerbate the gender gap in entrepreneurship. There is plenty of evidence to show that female entrepreneurs have been impacted disproportionately by the COVID-19 pandemic. In Germany, for example, female entrepreneurs were more likely to experience an income loss of at least 35% than males between April and July 2020 (Graeber et al., 2020) and female entrepreneurs in Canada reported a 43.5% reduction in hours worked between February and May 2020 relative to 27.3% for male entrepreneurs (Beland et al., 2020).