The Diana Project: Women Business Owners and Equity Capital: The Myths Dispelled

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Candida Brush ◽  
Nancy M. Carter ◽  
Elizabeth J. Gatewood ◽  
Patricia G. Greene ◽  
Myra Hart
Keyword(s):  
Business Owners ◽  
Equity Capital ◽  
Women Business Owners

scholarly journals Postfeminism, hybrid mumpreneur identities and the reproduction of masculine entrepreneurship

2021 ◽  
pp. 026624262110137
Author(s):  
Patricia Lewis ◽  
Nick Rumens ◽  
Ruth Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Business Owners ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Work Study ◽  
Hybrid Identity ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Women Business Owners ◽  
Family And Work ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Analytical Device

Mobilising postfeminism as an analytical device, this article re-examines how women business owners discursively engage with the identity of the mumpreneur. Drawing on interviews with women business owners, this article reconceptualises the compatibility between motherhood and entrepreneurship associated with the mumpreneur, in terms of a hybrid identity that interlinks feminine and masculine behaviours connected to home and work. Study data reveal the discursive practices present in interview accounts – choosing family and work, strategic mumpreneurship and enhancing the business without limits – which draw on postfeminist discourses to constitute hybrid entrepreneurial femininities associated with the mumpreneur category. The article contributes to the gender and entrepreneurship literature, in particular, the scholarship on mumpreneurship, by first, showing how engagement with the mumpreneur identity is implicated in the reproduction of masculine entrepreneurship; second, demonstrates how encounters with the mumpreneur contribute to the creation of a hierarchy of entrepreneurial identities which reinforces the masculine norm; and third considers how the mumpreneur as a hybrid identity mobilises entrepreneurship in children in gendered ways. While the emergence of the mumpreneur as a contemporary entrepreneurial identity has positively impacted how women’s entrepreneurship is viewed, the study demonstrates that it has not disrupted dominant discourses of masculine entrepreneurship or gendered power relations in the entrepreneurial field.

The effects of agent incentives and training of women business owners on the take-up of mobile financial services in Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gianmarco Leon ◽  
Erika Deserranno ◽  
Firman Witolear ◽  
Mayra Buvinic ◽  
Hillary C. Johnson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Financial Services ◽  
Business Owners ◽  
Women Business Owners ◽  
Mobile Financial Services ◽  
And Training

Growing Women Entrepreneurship in the Creative Industries in South Africa

2021 ◽  
pp. 237-261
Author(s):  
Ndwakhulu Stephen Tshishonga
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Job Creation ◽  
Business Owners ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Economic Resources ◽  
Women Entrepreneurship ◽  
Women Business Owners ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
New Ideas

This chapter interrogates the potential of women entrepreneurship as an economic strategy to address unemployment and job creation. The chapter focusses on creative industry to demonstrate that creativity and innovations can activate entrepreneurship among women in South Africa. It is through entrepreneurship that entrepreneurs transform their innovative and creative ideas into business enterprises and job creation. Although female entrepreneurship for economic development is recognised internationally, it lags behind those of men especially in the number of women business owners and the size of businesses including access to economic resources. The chapter argues that entrepreneurs are central in boosting the economy and the optimal use of their skills, innovative new ideas that sustain entrepreneurial creative projects. The chapter makes use of a visual profile, participant observation, case studies, and face-to-face interviews with women involved in creative industries such as bead making, pottery, traditional dress-making, and traditional dance.

Women of Enterprise

2021 ◽  
pp. 209-236
Author(s):  
Katina Manko
Keyword(s):  
Business Administration ◽  
Business Owners ◽  
Small Business Administration ◽  
Women Business Owners ◽  
High Ranking ◽  
Direct Sales ◽  
Global Organization ◽  
Sales Company ◽  
Management Policies ◽  
A Company

During the 1980s and 1990s, Avon had successfully built its reputation as “a company of women and for women.” Avon, along with the Small Business Administration, created a Women of Enterprise awards program that highlighted the success of women business owners outside of direct sales. Through this program, Avon engaged in a popular conversation about women’s ability to “have it all.” Recognized for its women-friendly management policies, organizations such as Catalyst held Avon up as an example of a company where women had shattered the glass ceiling, even though Avon continued to name men to lead the corporation, prompting the defection of several high-ranking women in its global organization. When Andrea Jung became CEO in 1999, Avon had reached its zenith as a direct sales company, but it could not succeed against the fundamental challenges presented by internet marketing.

Annotated bibliography on women business owners: A diversity lens

2007 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bonita L. Betters-Reed ◽  
Lynda L. Moore
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Women Entrepreneurs ◽  
Business Owners ◽  
White Female ◽  
Institutional Barriers ◽  
Female Entrepreneurs ◽  
Women Business Owners ◽  
Two Generations ◽  
Race Ethnicity

When we take the lens of race, ethnicity, gender, and class to the collected academic work on women business owners, what does it reveal? What do we really know? Are there differing definitions of success across segments of the women businessowner demographics? Do the challenges faced by African American women entrepreneurs differ from those confronting white female entrepreneurs? Do immigrant female women businessowners face more significant institutional barriers than their counterparts who have been U.S. citizens for at least two generations? Are there similar reasons for starting their businesses?

Broken Silence: A Commentary on Women's Entrepreneurship in the United Arab Emirates

2012 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nnamdi O. Madichie ◽  
Monica Gallant
Keyword(s):  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Business Owners ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Women Business Owners ◽  
Women’S Entrepreneurship ◽  
Key Drivers ◽  
Women's Entrepreneurship ◽  
Depth Interviews

Drawing upon the scant literature on women's entrepreneurship in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), this paper explores the motivations of women business owners in the country based on 10 in-depth interviews. Considering the patriarchal socio-cultural environmental context associated with the Middle East, a number of surprising dynamics are highlighted in the specific case of the UAE. Growing numbers of women graduates and businesses are observed, which suggests that the historical silence among this group is gradually being broken and that changes in government policies and the socio-cultural environment are the key drivers behind this evolution. The paper will benefit both scholars and government agencies interested in the dynamics of women's entrepreneurship in the UAE and, by extension, the Arab world.

Motivation of women business owners: case of Russia, Ukraine and Norway

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (1) ◽  
pp. 16600
Author(s):  
Tatiana Iakovleva ◽  
Maryna Solesvik ◽  
Anna Trifilova
Keyword(s):  
Business Owners ◽  
Women Business Owners
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