Gendered Capital: Entrepreneurial Women in American Enterprise / Edition 1

by Sally Ann Davies-Netzley

Overview

This book makes an important contribution by comparing the experiences of white and Latina women who own and operate businesses in the U.S. economy. While accounting for the significance of gender, ethnicity, and social class, Davies-Netzley explores the various pathways that women take to becoming entrepreneurs and the economic, social, and cultural capital they use along the way.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815338697
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/16/2000
Series:	Garland Studies in Entrepreneurship
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Sally Ann Davies-Netzley, ,

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 First Encounters; Chapter 2 Women’s Entrepreneurship in the U.S.; Chapter 3 Women’s Pathways to Entrepreneurship; Chapter 4 Capital and Entrepreneurship; Chapter 5 Patterns of Latina Entrepreneurship; Chapter 6 Conclusions;

Editorial Reviews

Growing out of interest in the fact that US women have in recent years been starting businesses at twice the rate of men, this study of 89 women entrepreneurs explores such national work trends, women's diverse pathways to entrepreneurship, and how gender and ethnicity affect securing the capital for ventures from home- based accounting to yoga businesses. One of the chapters is devoted to Latina entrepreneurship. Besides reiterating her interviewees' motivations and future goals in her concluding remarks on the meaning of entrepreneurship to women, the author notes that her research breaks new ground in showing variability among women "small capitalists" rather than comparing them with their male counterparts. Apparently based on a recent doctoral dissertation at the U. of California, Irvine. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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