Multifaceted Linkage between Women Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development Goals: A Bibliometric Exploration

Women entrepreneurs play a critical role in molding a sustainable future. It emerged as a key driver of sustainable development by blending innovation with economic empowerment to achieve goals such as gender equality and economic growth. The heightening emphasis on accomplishing sustainable development goals has highlighted the critical role of women entrepreneurs in driving social, sustainable, economic, and environmental progress. The study aims to present an all-inclusive bibliometric analysis of women entrepreneurship and sustainable development goals. It aims to identify the prominent themes and studies in this area. The Scopus database was chosen to extract the dataset from 2000 to 2025 due to its strong reputation and credibility. A string of appropriate keywords was employed to search the papers in the title, abstract or keywords yielding 232 initial records. The search was purified to include articles from the subject areas, ‘Business Management and Accounting, Social Science, Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Arts and Humanities, and Multidisciplinary. Finally, a filter to include articles only in English was also applied, and the final dataset used for the analyses comprised 219 records. It was found that sustainability, women entrepreneurship and sustainable development goals, sustainable entrepreneurship, fintech, and agriculture are the most prominent themes in this area, and the studies by Grimes, Bastian, and Raman are the most influential studies based on the citation counts. Moreover, the study identified the major SDGs in connection with women entrepreneurship, SDG 8 and SDG 5, and the study concludes by suggesting future research directions.