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Tool #1: Welcome to Leading Lenders!
Tool 1.1: Entrepreneurship in Canada
Tool 1.2: Women Entrepreneurship in Canada
Tool 1.3: How Much Do You Know About Women Entrepreneurs?
Tool 1.4: The “Discouraged Applicants”: Barriers for Women Entrepreneurs

Tool #2: Understanding Biases and Stereotypes
Tool 2.1: Rethinking the Meaning of Entrepreneur
Tool 2.2: Myths or Facts
Tool 2.3: How to Overcome Biases and Stereotypes
Tool 2.4: Stereotypes, Society and Culture

Tool #3: Access to Information
Tool 3.1: Information Barriers
Tool 3.2: Helping Women Entrepreneurs be Better Informed

Tool #4: Lending Policies & Practices
Tool 4.1: A Golden Opportunity: Women Entrepreneurs and Business Financing
Tool 4.2: Disqualifying Factors
Tool 4.3: Entrepreneurial Relationships with Women

Tool #5: Distinct Features of Women Entrepreneurship
Tool 5.1: Women Entrepreneurs and their Businesses
Tool 5.2: Sectors of Women Entrepreneurship
Tool 5.3: Motivation and Risk Adversity
Tool 5.4: Women Entrepreneurship and Growth
Tool 5.5: Women Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Tool 5.6: Women Entrepreneurship and Exportation
Tool 5.7: Mastering the Balancing Act

Tool #6: Women Entrepreneurs and Diversity
Tool 6.1: Underrepresented Women Entrepreneurs
Tool 6.2: Indigenous Women Entrepreneurs
Tool 6.3: Black Women Entrepreneurs

Tool #7: Financial Literacy
Tool 7.1: What is Financial Literacy?
Tool 7.2: Women Entrepreneurs and Financial Literacy
Tool 7.3: Education and Aspiring Women Entrepreneurs
Tool 7.4: Building Her Network

Tool #8: Becoming a Leading Lender
Tool 8.1: Being a Leading Lender

Tool #9: Women Entrepreneurship and COVID-19
Tool 9.1: The Impacts of COVID-19 on Women Entrepreneurship