invisible presences in Europe and North America?
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Craig, Béatrice
- Publish Year
- 2016
- Shelfmark
- WER 53 2016 - B
- Thesaurus
- arbeidsparticipatie, ondernemers, beroepen in bank- en verzekeringswezen, leidinggevende beroepen, sociale klasse, historisch, Europa, Noord-Amerika, 16e eeuw, 17e eeuw, 18e eeuw, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, statistiek
- Description
- This volume surveys the role women have played in various types of business as owners, co-owners and decision-making managers in European and North American societies since the sixteenth century. Drawing on scholarship, it identifies the economic, social, legal and cultural factors that have facilitated or restricted women's participation in business. It pays particular attention to the ways in which gender norms, and their evolution, shaped not only those women's experience of business, but the ways they were perceived by contemporaries, documented in sources and, partly as a consequence, viewed by historians.