process to enhance participation by small businesses, small disadvantaged businesses, labor surplus area firms, and women …

around the world (Carter & Williams, 2005). In a forty-one country study, females comprise 36% of all entrepreneurs (Reynolds …, we provide an overview of the Italian national context and the historical role of women’s involvement in the labor force …

persons to the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency, to identify their approach undertaken in implementing … equal employment opportunity. This industry is a female-dominated industry but, despite the high numbers of women employed … in the industry, there are limited numbers of women in management. This study is different from others in that it …

businesses (FCBs) in a series of distinct learning phases. Because that study's sample did not include many women, our present … study focuses on women in FCBs to better understand how they exercise leadership and entrepreneurship in the family firm … context. Case study analysis of an international sample of women FCB leaders, using frameworks which avoid essentialist …

firms. A few small-scale studies, notably Poza and Messer (2001) and Curimbaba (2002), describe the varying roles that women … adopt, but without explaining why they adopt such roles. Our research aims to examine the career progression of women … to establish whether and how the journey of women family business leaders follow different pathways. This chapter focuses …

particular focus on off-farm income contributed by women. The findings indicate that women’s contributions to household income … water and collecting firewood as well as the number of dependants limit women’s time that can be spent on off …