Purpose – To investigate the relationship between biological sex (male or female) and stereotypical sex‐roles (masculinity and femininity) and to determine which might be more appropriate to use when examining small to medium‐size (SME) owner characteristics such as: locus of control...

Purpose – This paper provides a comprehensive summary of the academic literature with regard to risk and its role in the entrepreneurial experience of women. Entrepreneurial risk has an under‐developed conceptual basis and distilling gender‐specific aspects is difficult. Various academic...

Purpose – To explore how information communication technologies (ICT) and the internet offer new opportunities for women to develop as entrepreneurs and innovators. To add to the literature and provide updated research to raise awareness about female‐run ICT small businesses....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce a normative approach to the measurement of segregation in the labor force, thus ascertaining whether segregation is due mainly to the existence of very “male‐intensive” occupations or to the presence of very “female‐intensive”...

Purpose – Aims to provide new evidence about gender differentials in domestic work time, market work time and total work time, that updates the evidence provided by Jenkins and O'Leary in 1997 and Layte in 1999 using UK time‐budget surveys. Design/methodology/approach – Investigates gender...

Purpose – To examine if there are systematic gender‐based differences in the perceptions of accounting firm alumni about their experiences with accounting firms. Design/methodology/approach – Alumni of Big 4 firms' offices in two large cities in the USA are surveyed. The analysis is based...

The objective of this research is to investigate the effects of sex role orientation on role structure in family decision making in Malaysia. Four different purchase decisions were examined. A total of 240 couples were interviewed separately in four major cities in Malaysia. Structured...

This study, conducted in 2002, investigated the impact of sex on a leader’s decisions involving employee disciplinary situations. All leaders would like to believe that they make fair and impartial decisions. Some of the most difficult decisions leaders make involve people (i.e. subordinates),...