Empowered in Business or Penalised in Marriage
Experiences of Single Female Entrepreneurs in China
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2374536 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jing Song (0000-0003-3009-9075, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China, corresponding author), Lulu Li (0000-0003-2075-7548, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 3-19 |
| Publication date | 2023-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Work Employment and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-0170 • E-ISSN: 1469-8722 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/09500170211028737 |
| OpenAlex | W3194111738 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 40 |
In China, entrepreneurship remains a non-traditional career for women, but little is known about how young single women may opt for entrepreneurship against the social penalty. This study focuses on single female entrepreneurs and finds them being stigmatised as doing inappropriate jobs and (consequently) staying single. The interviewees responded differently, by (1) coordinating their career and family formation plans to make them compatible, (2) justifying their being single based on their entrepreneurial achievements and (3) compensating for their deviance and using their economic capability to fulfil other family roles. In contrast to the 'androcentric' business model based on carefree agents, female entrepreneurs illustrate different forms of agency to accommodate career aspirations and family duties. Given China's market-oriented reforms, persisting gender beliefs and the socialist legacy, this study illustrates women's fluid and interactive agency in response to the gendered penalty in non-traditional careers
Agency (philosophy · China · Chinese family · Deviance (statistics · Entrepreneurship · Female entrepreneurs · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences · Family Business Performance and Succession · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Law
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Gendering Transnational Business Spaces
Femininity penalties and rewards
The influence mechanism of women’s entrepreneurial self-identity on entrepreneurial well-being
Online business
Embracing a rubber rice bowl
Crafting gender into meaningful work
Doing business against gendered stigma
Moving Away, Moving Up, and Moving Back
Downward Geographical Mobility and Upward Social Mobility
China and the Internationalisation of the Sociology of Contemporary Work and Employment
Mastering political time
Global Women’s Entrepreneurship Research
Anxious Wealth
A Treatise on the Family
China's E-Commerce
Other Modernities
Paradise Redefined
Only Hope
Leftover Women
Little Emperors and Material Girls
Women’s Entry into Self-employment in Urban China
The Intersection between Gender, the Family and Self-employment
Gender differences in entrepreneurship
Doing Gender, Doing Entrepreneurship
The Gender of Communication
Women's business
Male/Female Earnings Differences in Self-Employment
Communist Cadres and Market Opportunities
Fairy Brides from Heaven
Girl Power
The Value of Self-Employment to Ethnic Minorities
Being a Self-Employed Older Woman
His or her work-life balance? Experiences of self-employed immigrant parents
Gendered work-family conflict in Germany
Work, Employment and Society, 1997-2007
Employment and work conditions in home-based enterprises in four developing countries
Heterogeneity in Contemporary Chinese Marriage
Marriage in Asia
Marriage and Family in East Asia
Between Tradition and Modernity
China's New Rural Daughters Coming of Age
Understanding Sheng Nu ('Leftover Women)
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |