This article studies female participation rates as entrepreneurs during the 1877- 1908 period using data from the Santiago business license registry, census data and the trademark registry. The evidence reveals that business women in Santiago increased from 3 to 14 percent of the female labor...

Chapter 1. Italian women of the past: their economic culture and actions (Manuela Mosca) -- Part I. Women in business -- Chapter 2. Isabella De Mari Doria, a female investor and gambler in the Genoese aristocracy (Antonio Iodice) -- Chapter 3. Women and business: fresh evidence from the probate...