The hidden role of women in family firms

Paula Rodríguez-Modroño, Lina Gálvez-Muñoz () and Astrid Agenjo-Calderón
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Lina Gálvez-Muñoz: Department of Economics, Quantitative Methods and Economic History, Universidad Pablo de Olavide

No 15.01, Working Papers from Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Department of Economics, Quantitative Methods and Economic History

Abstract: Women have historically played an important hidden role in family firms, and a great deal of research is now shedding light on this role. In spite of the more formal nature of their work in the present day, still a considerable volume of women’s contributions remains invisible to official statistics. This study, based on interviews with over 500 women in small and medium family firms, brings this informal work into view, quantifying it in terms of hours worked and monetary value, exploring the reasons for its informality and examining the risks and precariousness it entails.

Keywords: North-South; growth model; innovation assimilation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D13 J16 M20 N80 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24 pages
Date: 2015-11, Revised 2015-12
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