Women and Business since 1500

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Women and Business since 1500 is written by Béatrice Craig and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1350307440 (ISBN 10) and 9781350307445 (ISBN 13).

This volume surveys the role women have played in various types of business as owners, co-owners and decision-making managers in European and North American societies since the sixteenth century. Drawing on up-to-date scholarship, it identifies the economic, social, legal and cultural factors that have facilitated or restricted women's participation in business. It pays particular attention to the ways in which gender norms, and their evolution, shaped not only those women's experience of business, but the ways they were perceived by contemporaries, documented in sources and, partly as a consequence, viewed by historians.