Organizing Entrepreneurship? Women’s Invisibility in Self-employment

Deborah Kerfoot and Caroline Miller
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Deborah Kerfoot: Keele University
Caroline Miller: Manchester Metropolitan University

Chapter 5 in Revealing and Concealing Gender, 2010, pp 100-123 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Entrepreneurship in the UK, advanced not least by the British government and other agencies, encourages enterprise and innovation. For example, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) claims to: Promote enterprise, innovation and increased productivity — in particular by encouraging successful business start-ups, and by increasing the capacity of business including SME’s to grow, to invest, to develop skills, to adopt best practice... [it is] UK policy to promote enterprise ... and is seen to be of key importance in terms of employment, and wealth creation, and poverty alleviation. (DTI Website, www.dti.gov.uk).

Keywords: Small Business; Woman Entrepreneur; Female Entrepreneur; Small Business Owner; Masculine Norm (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230285576_6

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