Gendered professional strategies in self-employment

Abstract

The discussion on new forms of non-privileged self-employment of women and minorities in the European Union usually develops — in the academic as well as in the political sphere — into separate discourses on women’s opportunities and ethnic business. Our research has brought these two discourses together. The argument for doing so was the fact that both groups are — to a greater extent than native males — vulnerable to social exclusion on the labor market and at the same time subjects of unrecognized resources for self employment that have to be taken into account.