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An examination of women entrepreneurs who invested in, and often managed, non-feminine businesses such as shipping and shipbuilding in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Shows how, at a time when women were assumed to be confined to domestic roles, many women were in fact actively and effectively running businesses, including non-feminine businesses. The book investigates independent women entrepreneurs who ran shipping and shipbuilding businesses in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, often managing male workforces. Far from the genteel notion of Victorian women as milliners and haberdashers, this book shows that women could and did manage male businesses and manage men. Women invested in the expanding shipping industry throughout the late eighteenth and the nineteenth century and actively ran non feminine businesses such as shipbuilding. By setting the businesswomen firmly in the context of the industry, the book examines the business challenges from the woman's perspective. It demonstrates how a woman needed to understand the business requirements while in some cases also being a single parent. As business managers, they had to manage a male workforce, deal with large and important customers and ensure they maintained their firm's reputation and continued to win orders. Nor were these women mere caretakers for the next generation, in many cases continuing to run the business in an active manner after their son or sons were of age. This book reveals communities of independent women in England who were active entrepreneurs and investors, in a period when women were increasingly supposed to be relegated to a more domestic role. It includes brief biographies of many of these women entrepreneurs who were also conventional mothers, wives and daughters. Helen Doe is an Honorary Fellow of the Centre for Maritime Historical Studies, University of Exeter; a Council Member of the Society for Nautical Research; chair of their marketing committee; a member of the British Commission for Maritime History; on the Advisory Council of the SS Great Britain; and a Trustee of the National Maritime Museum Cornwall.

Shipbuilding --- Businesswomen --- Entrepreneurs, Women --- Women entrepreneurs --- Women in business --- Businesspeople --- Women-owned business enterprises --- Naval construction --- Ship-building --- Ships --- Boatbuilding --- Naval architecture --- Shipyards --- History --- Design and construction --- Business Challenges. --- Economic Role. --- England. --- Independent Women. --- Male Workforce. --- Shipbuilding. --- Shipping. --- Victorian Women. --- Women Entrepreneurs.

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This international and multidisciplinary journal studies the difference between men and women in the workplace and the role of women in society more broadly. Gender is not a specialized area of research but a frame through which to interpret the social world.

Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Sociology of work --- Working class --- Sex role --- Labor --- Travailleurs --- Rôle selon le sexe --- Travail --- Periodicals. --- Périodiques --- Sex role in the work environment --- Women --- Social conditions --- Employment --- Sociologie industrielle --- Rôle selon le sexe en milieu de travail --- Femmes --- Conditions sociales --- Business, Economy and Management --- Business Management --- Economics --- Sex role in the work environment. --- Working class. --- Employment. --- Social conditions. --- Commons (Social order) --- Labor and laboring classes --- Laboring class --- Labouring class --- Working classes --- Employment of women --- Occupations --- Social classes --- Feminism --- Equal pay for equal work --- Sex discrimination in employment --- Working women in motion pictures --- Industrial sociology --- Sexual harassment --- Work environment --- Rôle selon le sexe en milieu de travail --- Sociology --- Industrial organization --- Industries --- Social aspects --- Working class - Periodicals --- Sex role in the work environment - Periodicals --- Women - Social conditions - Periodicals --- Women - Employment - Periodicals --- Industrial sociology. --- women workers. --- men. --- labour market. --- economic role. --- social role. --- travailleuses. --- hommes. --- marché du travail. --- rôle économique. --- rôle social. --- trabajadoras. --- hombres. --- mercado de trabajo. --- papel económico. --- papel social. --- France. --- Francia.