Contextual Embeddedness of Women's Entrepreneurship

17 An interdisciplinary framework to deconstruct second-generation gender bias

Ethné Swartz and Frances Amatucci

The gender-neutral paradox

Has sufficient progress been made in women’s emancipation and labour force participation in the United States of America (USA) to move to the implementation of gender-neutral policies? Are we at a point where we can agree that gender discrimination has been ‘solved’, or that we have reached a ‘grand convergence’?

Of the many advances in society and the economy in the last century, the converging roles of men and women are among the grandest. A narrowing has occurred between men and women in labor force participation, paid hours of work, hours of work at home, life-time labor force experience, occupations, ...