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Female Entrepreneurship in England and Wales, 1851–1911

In: Female Entrepreneurs in the Long Nineteenth Century

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  • Carry Lieshout

    (University of Cambridge)

  • Harry Smith

    (University of Cambridge)

  • Robert J. Bennett

    (University of Cambridge)

Abstract

The British Business Census of Entrepreneurs provides data on all employers and self-employed sole proprietors between 1851 and 1911. This chapter uses those data to provide the first whole-population study of female entrepreneurship in England and Wales during that period. It gives the aggregate totals of female business proprietors as well as the totals broken down by sector. It also considers the geography of female entrepreneurship and how age and marital status affected the probability of women running a business. The chapter shows that female entrepreneurship was more common in England and Wales than previous studies have suggested, but that, as with male entrepreneurship, a range of factors, including the labour market, demography and household structure, restricted their activities.

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  • Carry Lieshout & Harry Smith & Robert J. Bennett, 2020. "Female Entrepreneurship in England and Wales, 1851–1911," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: Jennifer Aston & Catherine Bishop (ed.), Female Entrepreneurs in the Long Nineteenth Century, edition 1, chapter 0, pages 289-314, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palscp:978-3-030-33412-3_12
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-33412-3_12
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