The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) 2018/2019 Women's Entrepreneurship Report was produced by Amanda B. Elam, Candida G. Brush, Patricia G. Greene, Benjamin Baumer, Monica Dean, and René Heavlow. The report is a special thank you to Jonathan Francis Carmona and Mahdi Majbouri for assistance with data analysis, to Aileen Ionescu-Somers, GEM Executive Director, and Chris Aylett, GEM Operations Manager, for coordinating the report content and production, to Donna Kelley for her insight and guidance in the writing of this report, to Martha Lanning for proofreading and copyediting, to Emily Brush for cover graphics, and to Dean Bargh for preparing the print-ready document for publication. The report acknowledges the GEM national teams for overseeing the GEM Adult Population Survey and conducting the National Expert Survey, as well as contributing their local knowledge about entrepreneurship in their economies. The report also thanks the entire GEM central administrative and technical team, the Research and Innovation Advisory Committee, and the board of directors for their oversight. Finally, the report gives a big thanks to Mike Herrington for his leadership as GEM’s Executive Director 2011–2018, to Michael Hay and Bill Bygrave, co-founders of GEM, and Paul Reynolds, Founding Principal Investigator.
