Female Business Owners Benefit
If you imagine that you give up your job and start your own business-to-work-life balance is easier to achieve, you are probably on the right track. Women entrepreneurs take advantage of the flexibility that comes with independent, spending more time on childcare and housework than men who work for employers, according to a study released by the U.S. Small Business Administration in February 2009.
Women business owners spend more than 3.5 hours per week in household activities than employed women more than men and six hours, the study found.
“Previous studies have shown that women entering self-employment for reasons other than the potential earnings and lifestyle factors that influence their decision,” acting Shawn McGibbon, chief counsel for advocacy at the SBA, said in a statement. “This study shows that the use of a pattern of self-employed women are in fact different from that of a female wage and salary. Self-employed women spend less time on work-related activities and more time on household chores and childcare.
Men Vs. Women Business Owners
Women 57 percent less likely to become entrepreneurs than men, with the lowest rates among black women as independent and foreign born. Women business owners make less than seven percent of women in the workforce, compared with over 12 percent of people who work alone, the SBA said.
The biggest difference between male and female entrepreneurs are found in secondary child care when a parent is the same location as a child, but especially doing Other activities. Women business owners spend more than 6.4 hours per week than men in secondary care.
Independent women work about 10 hours less per week and three hours to spend in primary care for children with respect to independent men, the researchers said.
Married have the opposite effect on how men and women entrepreneurs spend their time, the study found. Self-employed married women worked 4.5 fewer hours than their counterparts who were not married, while married men worked almost independent four hours more per week than men, unmarried working alone.
Women Entrepreneur Vs. Salary Employees
Women business owners spend less than wage and salary workers – both men and women – in work-related activities and more time on household activities. But the women had to spend two hours a week more in childcare than their male counterparts.
Each additional child in the household results in 2.4 hours less per week for self-employed women and 1.5 fewer hours per week for women employed by another organization, the study found.
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higher-earning women are more likely to enter self-employment is less productive than their counterparts. Women with advanced degrees are often business owners, particularly in finance, education and health care and other service jobs, the study.
The authors say their findings support the policies that improving work-life balance, offset racial differences in education and encouraging entrepreneurship as a way to encourage more women to enter self-employment to family life with a desire or need for a living.
Papers on women business owners was written by Tami Gurley-Calvez University of West Virginia, Katherine Harper of the University of Tennessee and Amelia Biehl of the University of Michigan-Flint. This is based on data from the American Time Use Survey 2003-2006, sponsored by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau.