Small Business Economics ( IF 7.096 ) Pub Date : 2023-01-17 , DOI: 10.1007/s11187-022-00713-7 Oluwasheyi Oladipo, Katarzyna Platt, Hyoung Suk Shim
Gender roles demand that women devote more time to non-market labor such as childcare and household responsibilities. Therefore, the labor market hinders women’s ability to compete with their male counterparts, whose time is less subject to the demands of non-market work. The result is a performance gap between men and women. To obtain the flexibility to more efficiently perform both their market and non-market work, many women choose to be self-employed and operate their businesses from home. Using a large sample of US firms, we find that women who choose to operate their own businesses from home are able to narrow the performance gap between men and women entrepreneurs.
Plain English Summary Women partially overcome societal disadvantages by running businesses from home. Women business owners achieve significant synergies by working from home that enable them to narrow the gap in performance relative to men. An analysis of over 600,000 small businesses reveals that there is a significant gap in performance between businesses run by men versus those run by women. Prior research shows that men enjoy structural advantages over women due to society’s demands on women’s time to perform household duties or provide childcare. We find that women are able to narrow the resulting performance gap by operating their businesses from home, providing them increased flexibility to manage their time. Our paper indicates that supporting women-owned businesses with policies that grant greater flexibility or more equitably or efficiently distribute household work can improve economic efficiency.
中文翻译:
在家管理的女企业家
性别角色要求女性将更多时间投入到非市场劳动中,例如儿童保育和家务责任。因此,劳动力市场阻碍了女性与男性竞争的能力,男性的时间较少受制于非市场工作的需求。结果是男女之间的绩效差距。为了获得灵活性以更有效地开展市场和非市场工作,许多女性选择自营职业并在家经营业务。通过大量美国公司样本,我们发现选择在家经营自己企业的女性能够缩小男女企业家之间的绩效差距。
简单的英语摘要女性通过在家经营企业,部分克服了社会劣势。女性企业主通过在家工作实现显着的协同效应,使她们能够缩小与男性的绩效差距。对超过 600,000 家小型企业的分析表明,男性经营的企业与女性经营的企业在绩效上存在显着差距。先前的研究表明,由于社会要求女性有时间履行家务或照顾孩子,男性比女性享有结构性优势。我们发现,女性能够通过在家经营业务来缩小由此产生的绩效差距,从而提高她们管理时间的灵活性。