Women accomplish nearly two-thirds of total work around the world (including household duties), comprise one-third of the formal labor force, but women receive one-tenth of the world's income and own only one-hundredth of the world’s property. Entrepreneurship is a vehicle for advancing the lives of women around the world. This book brings together 49 distinguished entrepreneurship scholars to provide a unique global vision of the wellbeing of women entrepreneurs necessary for fostering sustainable development and inclusive societies.
Although gender inequality is an important issue, solutions leading to gender parity are far from reaching ideal levels in the formal workplace and globally. Meanwhile the number of women involved in entrepreneurship is growing exponentially because there are more opportunities for women to own a business and be their own boss. This offers women the most desirable and flexible working conditions that better align with women’s lifestyles and multiple family responsibilities. However, entrepreneurial activities are demanding and complex; compared to men, women face special challenges that deserve close attention. This book presents research and programs to effectively support women entrepreneurs in reaching levels of wellbeing required to ensure business sustainability and personal prosperity.
Offering a diversity perspectives from around the globe, The Wellbeing of Women in Entrepreneurship is of great interest to academics and practitioners working in teaching and research in disciplines including business management, entrepreneurship, oganizational change, human centered management, human resources, sustainable development, and women’s studies.
Author(s): Maria-Teresa Lepeley, Katherina Kuschel, Nicholas Beutell, Nicky Pouw, Emiel L. Eijdenberg
Series: Human Centered Management
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 420
City: London
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Contents
Foreword
Preface
About the editors
List of contributors
List of figures
List of tables
Part 1 The Americas
United States
1 The multiplier effect of wellbeing of women entrepreneurs: a practical approach and a personal account
2 Women entrepreneurs: advancing from quantity to quality to attain wellbeing through business sustainability
3 Wellbeing, family, support, and health among married women entrepreneurs in the United States
4 Wellbeing of women entrepreneurs in the United States: common themes through their narratives
5 Women founders of STEM firms in the United States: challenges and opportunities to attain business sustainability and wellbeing
6 The expat entrepreneur: entrepreneurial ventures and wellbeing of women as ‘trailing spouses’
7 Work, wellness, and wellbeing: women entrepreneurs can be well while doing good
Latin America Chile
8 Women in entrepreneurship from failure to wellbeing: paradox or a paradigm? A case study in Chile
9 Entrepreneurship as therapy: a metaphor among necessity-driven women seeking wellbeing by doing and connecting in Chile
10 Women in high-growth entrepreneurship and Chile’s entrepreneurial ecosystem
Peru
11 Wellbeing of women entrepreneurs in rural Cusco, Peru: success stories and entrepreneurial training
The Caribbean Trinidad and Tobago
12 Entrepreneurial engagement, empowerment, and wellbeing of Caribbean women: a meta-synthesis
Part 2 Europe
France
13 Why women entrepreneurs undertake lower radical growth modalities than do men: the imprinting phenomenon
Italy
14 Work-family conflicts and satisfaction among Italian women entrepreneurs
15 Wellbeing of women entrepreneurs and relational capital: a case study in Italy
Spain
16 Aspects of the work-life balance and wellbeing of women in entrepreneurship
Sweden
17 Entrepreneurial life-puzzle and wellbeing: the case of Swedish women entrepreneurs
United Kingdom
18 Women entrepreneurs and wellbeing: an identity perspective
Part 3 Europe – Central Asia
Turkey
19 Grameen microcredit model of social entrepreneurship: effects on wellbeing among women entrepreneurs in Turkey
Part 4 South Asia
India
20 Wellbeing of women entrepreneurs: an Indian perspective
Bangladesh
21 Wellbeing assessment of pull and push women entrepreneurs: the case of Bangladesh
Part 5 Middle East
Lebanon – Jordan
22 Exploring degrees of wellbeing of women entrepreneurs in refugee settlements in the Middle East: a personal account
Part 6 Africa
Zambia
23 Exploring wellbeing indicators of women micro entrepreneurs in Zambia
Kenya
24 Rethinking women in survival entrepreneurship and wellbeing in Kenya
Ethiopia
25 Hired domestic help: critical factor in women entrepreneurs’ life and business satisfaction in sub-Saharan countries
Part 7 Australia
26 Enhancing wellbeing of women in entrepreneurship in media narrative
Index
