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Getting Down to Business and Off Welfare: Rural Women Entrepreneurs

Getting Down to Business and Off Welfare: Rural Women Entrepreneurs Down to Business Getting and Off Welfare: Rural Women Entrepreneurs Marcia Egan a that This article on the reports grounded theory study explored 17 low-income women that to choose sole rural, influenced experiences business as a strategy for becoming ownership economically self- revealed two Constant comparative analysis sufficient. experiences all the women. Two that were common to constellations separate of the over also two thirds the experiences of experiences emerged: of women that were distal to the decision and the entrepreneurial expe- were riences the women that to the decision. of remaining proximal Low-income rural women face several barriers to achieving economic These obstacles include the increas- self-sufficiency of in the of ing scarcity well-paid jobs declining economy many rural areas and a held social construc- (Fitchen, 1993) strongly tion of work and roles in the rural culture gendered gender Flora, Flora, (Adkins, 1995; Swanson, 1992). Spears, Employ- ment in rural areas is concentrated in low-status low-paying, as a result of out of these areas jobs, largely industry moving (Lichter Morris, 1986). McLaughlin, 1995; Gender-appropriate work for a rural woman is a or part-time temporary low-paid it is not that the Therefore, 1995). job (Gringeri, surprising of women and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work SAGE

Getting Down to Business and Off Welfare: Rural Women Entrepreneurs

Egan, Marcia
Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work , Volume 12 (2): 14 – Jul 1, 1997
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Down to Business Getting and Off Welfare: Rural Women Entrepreneurs Marcia Egan a that This article on the reports grounded theory study explored 17 low-income women that to choose sole rural, influenced experiences business as a strategy for becoming ownership economically self- revealed two Constant comparative analysis sufficient. experiences all the women. Two that were common to constellations separate of the over also two thirds the experiences of experiences emerged: of women that were distal to the decision and the entrepreneurial expe- were riences the women that to the decision. of remaining proximal Low-income rural women face several barriers to achieving economic These obstacles include the increas- self-sufficiency of in the of ing scarcity well-paid jobs declining economy many rural areas and a held social construc- (Fitchen, 1993) strongly tion of work and roles in the rural culture gendered gender Flora, Flora, (Adkins, 1995; Swanson, 1992). Spears, Employ- ment in rural areas is concentrated in low-status low-paying, as a result of out of these areas jobs, largely industry moving (Lichter Morris, 1986). McLaughlin, 1995; Gender-appropriate work for a rural woman is a or part-time temporary low-paid it is not that the Therefore, 1995). job (Gringeri, surprising of women and

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