Female Entrepreneurship in England and Wales, 1851–1911

Carry Lieshout (), Harry Smith and Robert J. Bennett
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Carry Lieshout: University of Cambridge
Harry Smith: University of Cambridge
Robert J. Bennett: University of Cambridge

Chapter Chapter 12 in Female Entrepreneurs in the Long Nineteenth Century, 2020, pp 289-314 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The British Business Census of Entrepreneurs provides data on all employers and self-employed sole proprietors between 1851 and 1911. This chapter uses those data to provide the first whole-population study of female entrepreneurship in England and Wales during that period. It gives the aggregate totals of female business proprietors as well as the totals broken down by sector. It also considers the geography of female entrepreneurship and how age and marital status affected the probability of women running a business. The chapter shows that female entrepreneurship was more common in England and Wales than previous studies have suggested, but that, as with male entrepreneurship, a range of factors, including the labour market, demography and household structure, restricted their activities.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-33412-3_12

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