Self--employed women — new opportunities, old challenges?

Susan Marlow

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 1997, vol. 9, issue 3, 199-210

Abstract: In this paper it is argued that the gender of an individual entering self--employment will significantly affect the experience of owning a business. Given that women are subject to patriarchal pressures that underlie their subordination in society, it is argued that being female will affect the experience of self--employment from initiation of the firm, to development of the enterprise through to the manner of daily management challenges. This hypothesis is evaluated through a matched study of male and female small business owners where the effect of gender upon the experiences of small firm ownership is evaluated.

Date: 1997
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