in such cases providing better information on the success rate of femaleled businesses at school or through broader awareness campaigns may have a positive effect on female entrepreneurship as such misperceptions are often the result of lack of experience with female borrowers facilitating women s access to credit through the policy levers discussed above may have the added positive effect of dissipating harmful stereotypes effective antidiscrimination laws can also play an important role this places significant constraints on their time availability for paid employment with detrimental effects on their labour market outcomes