"Women are the world's most powerful consumers, yet they are largely marketed to erroneously through misconceptions and … patriarchal views that distort the reality of women's lives, bodies and work. This book examines the contradictions and mismatches … between women's everyday experiences and market representations. It considers how women themselves exhibit paradoxical …

This volume addresses the current challenges for and future prospects of women’s entrepreneurship research, bringing … aspects of the challenges to and future academic and practical prospects of women’s entrepreneurship …Part 1: Research Studies -- 1. Women’s Entrepreneurship in Europe - Research Facets and Educational Foci -- 2. Female …

empirical reflections based on public census data for Germany. Talk about the rise and future of self-employment must be linked … developments of an increasing expansion of self-employment e.g. in Germany, or will the new chances and risks lead to a greater …

Drawing on individual-level mobility data from Germany between 1996 and 2009, this analysis econometrically … mitigated or exacerbated by other socioeconomic attributes of the individual and the household? The results indicate that women … reach mode allocation decisions, and that women, in particular, stand to benefi t from the maintenance of an effi cient and …