Analyses of the diversity of women entrepreneurs and their enterprises, using novel approaches and theoretical viewpoints, is lacking in contemporary scholarship. Accordingly, this article reviews and critiques five articles that constitute this Special Issue (SI) focused on exploring the diversity of women’s entrepreneurship. The authors acknowledge that entrepreneurship is a rich and multi-coloured tapestry, hence, these SI articles highlight the complexities of women entrepreneurs and celebrate their diversity through signposting towards research conceptualisations that reflect the actual rather than the assumed status quo. The article contributes to extant scholarship by platforming the heterogeneity of women’s entrepreneurial endeavours, supporting the view that in terms of supporting women’s entrepreneurship, ‘one size (still) does not fit all’. We also propose a framework to help future scholars strengthen the quality and relevance of their research on women entrepreneurs along four key dimensions: influence of context; theoretical development; multiplicity of dimensions; and heterogeneity.

当代学术缺乏使用新方法和理论观点分析女企业家及其企业的多样性。因此，本文对构成本特刊 (SI) 的五篇文章进行了评论和批评，重点是探索女性创业的多样性。作者承认创业是一幅丰富多彩的挂毯，因此，这些 SI 文章强调了女企业家的复杂性，并通过指向反映实际而非假设现状的研究概念化的路标来庆祝她们的多样性。该文章通过将女性创业努力的异质性平台化，为现有的学术做出贡献，支持以下观点，即在支持女性创业方面，'一种尺寸（仍然）不适合所有人'。我们还提出了一个框架，以帮助未来的学者在四个关键维度上加强他们对女企业家的研究的质量和相关性：背景的影响；理论发展；维度的多样性；和异质性。