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Susana Martínez-Rodríguez will share her work on how women are under-represented in the Economics profession and present the key findings of her last paper on Spanish female entrepreneurs from a historical perspective. Spanish women at the turn of the twentieth century played an active and visible role in the business sphere. Between 1886 and 1936, over 10% of newly registered firms had at least one female owner. Of those owners, 70% were widows. The majority of those women had management responsibilities in their firm. Multi-owner firms with at least one female owner display marked differences, in terms of capital, number of partners, family ties, and management, from those run solely by men. These findings match with the recent literature into business history that has determined that women played an active and visible role in the modernization of the contemporary business fabric.
Speaker: Susana Martínez-Rodríguez, Associate Professor in Economic History, University of Murcia; McCraw Fellow in US Business History- Harvard Business School.
Sponsor: RCC