Gendered Paths: Why Women Lag Behind Men in Small Business Success

Work and Occupations

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 183-219

  Loscocco, Karyn ^a   Bird, Sharon R ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

doing gender; entrepreneurship; gendered inequality; self employment; work and family

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860513051     PISSN: 07308884     EISSN: 15528464     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0730888412444282     Document Type: Article

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