Women in Self-employment: Diverse Constructions and Alternate Frames
Published: 2019
Author(s) Name: Mridul Maheshwari and Jerome Joseph |
Author(s) Affiliation: Assistant Professor, IIM Kashipur, Kundeshwari, Uttarakhand
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Abstract
The question of whether and why
women prefer self-employment to
wage-employment in dealing with
social space-work space interface
has been on the research radar for
some time. A careful scrutiny of research
depictions of women in selfemployment
points towards three
frames for a better understanding
of whether and why women choose
self-employment over wage employment
while engaging with social
space-workspace dilemmas - the
“pragmatic-accepting” (self-employment
as an arrangement at the
person level in tune with social
space-workspace ground realities),
the “organizational-managerial”
(self-employment as flight from insensate
managerialism), and the
“structural-contradictory” (selfemployment
as a fission triggered by
resentful distress and strident protest
against deeply embedded heedlessness)
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