International Entrepreneurship and Business History

Abstract

This chapter aims to combine gender, race, and entrepreneurship and examines their impact in creating economic shifts of wealth and power, which sometimes complicated and sometimes exacerbated inequality in the areas of entrepreneurship, gender, and race. Gender, race, and entrepreneurship are concepts constructed by societies to convey powerful realities about how people engage and interact with each other. Entrepreneurship, by contrast, foregrounds the mutual influences of individual agency and societal change. Entrepreneurship became a hot topic in academia as well. The increasing numbers of women receiving college and professional degrees meant that women were better positioned to undertake entrepreneurship and to educate themselves and others about it. Entrepreneurship spans the categories of poverty, self-employment, middle-class status, and big boot capitalist winners. The financial crisis of 2008 gave scholars of female entrepreneurship reason to exhale, and gender scholars and business historian’s new territories to explore. Scholars of gender and female entrepreneurship, however, have remained wary.

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