Today's Pick: The geography of female entrepreneurship

Women’s work, deconstructed

We’ve got a long way to go before Lorrie Moore’s recent boast that the “moment for feminine role models, arguably, has passed us by… girls have now managed on their own” is supported by hard data. In fact, sobering new research suggests that female entrepreneurs face significant geographic disadvantages in comparison to their male counterparts.

Drawing on 2007 data from Dun and Bradstreet, Stuart S. Rosenthal and William C. Strange conclude that “female businesses are less likely to be found in highly interactive, innovative, and productive centers of activity.” Like so many gender disparities, this one is attributed both to women’s exclusion from male-dominated networks and to women’s heavier domestic burdens.

Maybe it’s time to launch She-Entrepreneurship 101?

Read the full paper: “Female Entrepreneurship, Agglomeration, and a New Spatial Mismatch” (PDF).

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