“…Researchers have shown that women's entrepreneurship empowers them, improves social life (Itani et al , 2011; Aloulou, 2018; Debnath et al , 2020; Pachorkar et al , 2020) and enhances self-confidence (Danish and Smith, 2012) and financial independence, which, in turn, would place women in a position of power to influence family decisions (Alexandre and Kharabsheh, 2019). Moreover, many researchers have demonstrated the impact the empowered women entrepreneurs can have on women around them, for example, by hiring other female workers (Alkhaled, 2021).…”