Enterprising women: A comparison of women's and men's small business networks

Gender and Society

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 388-411

  Loscocco, Karyn ^a   Monnat, Shannon M ^b   Moore, Gwen ^a   Lauber, Kirsten B ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender inequality; Network determinants; Networks; Social ties; Women business owners

Indexed keywords

EID: 66349106516     PISSN: 08912432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0891243209336741     Document Type: Article

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