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Margins of intervention? Gender, Bourdieu and women’s regional entrepreneurial networks

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  • Richard T Harrison
  • Claire M Leitch
  • Maura McAdam

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In this paper, we apply a feminist interpretation and an extension of Bourdieu’s theory of practice to explore the gap in our understanding between gender gap issues – the institutionalized and structural inequalities that underpin the differential access to resources by women and men – and women business owners. Drawing on an interpretivist analysis of the lived experience of women entrepreneurs who were members of women-only or open-to-all formal entrepreneurship networks, we examine their enculturation and the strategies they employ to be deemed credible players in the field. We conclude that women-only formal entrepreneurship networks have had a limited impact on helping these women overcome the isolating and individualizing effects of a gendered entrepreneurial field. Despite the promise of familiarization with and sensitization to the field, women-only formal entrepreneurship networks only serve to perpetuate and reproduce the embedded masculinity of the entrepreneurship domain in the absence of appropriate activating mechanisms or ‘margins of intervention’.

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  • Richard T Harrison & Claire M Leitch & Maura McAdam, 2024. "Margins of intervention? Gender, Bourdieu and women’s regional entrepreneurial networks," Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 36(3-4), pages 209-242, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:entreg:v:36:y:2024:i:3-4:p:209-242
    DOI: 10.1080/08985626.2023.2298981
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