Reasons for the relatively lower entrepreneurial activity levels of rural women in Spain

Sociologia Ruralis

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 70-96

  Driga, Otilia ^a,b   Lafuente, Esteban ^a,b   Vaillant, Yancy ^b  

^a Centre for Entrepreneurship and Business Research (CEBR)   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; ENTREPRENEUR; GENDER DISPARITY; GENDER ROLE; LOGIT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL AREA; WOMENS STATUS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 57749187644     PISSN: 00380199     EISSN: 14679523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9523.2008.00475.x     Document Type: Article

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