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canadian woman studies / les cahiers de la femme (cws/cf)
CALL FOR PAPERS
putting together an issue on
WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS
Winter 1994 Issue (Vol.15, no.1)
CWS/cf's Winter 1994 issue is committed to an exploration of women's
entrepeneurial skills. The rapid rise of the number of women-owned
businesses in the world is one of the most significant economic and
social developments of the past two decades. We hope the issue will
profile successful Canadian women entrepeneurs, addressing the ways in
which women can break into existing entrepeneurial systems.
Although the emphasis will be on how women can find a place in Canada
s adjusting economy and be active participants in the new global
economy, a wide range of articles will examine effective ways women
can find, develop, and fill specific market niches profitably. A
section of the issue will have an international component, looking at
the efforts of entrepreneurial women around the world as well as
encouraging the development of entrepeneurship with other countries.
We hope to provide a forum for a thoughtful exploration of topics not
usually covered by the mass media and to be a vehicle for the
expression of the concerns of feminists across Canada whose commitment
to helping women develop entrepeneurial skills is rooted in pragmatic
day-to-day issues.
Articles might address the following themes:
Myths and facts concerning gender differences in access to credit
A history of women entrepreneurs in Canada.
Women inventors and entrepreneurial motivations.
Grassroots women s enterprises: models for survival and success.
Systemic barriers to women s entrepreneurship.
North/south linkages in women s entreprises: learning from
redeveloping countries.
The dynamics of family businesses and the role of young women.
Issues for immigrant women entrepreneurs.
Young entrepeneurs and the need for achievement.
Feminism, ideology, and entrepeneurial women.
Looking to the future: women s place in the new global economy.
Women making a difference from within: using power for influence
and change.
Home based businesses: pros and cons for women.
Promoting the visibility of and recognition for the value of
women s work.
My mother, the entrepreneur: a daughter s perspective.
Educational, historical, economic, and social factors that
foster women s entrepereneurship.
Defining success for women entrepreneurs.
Can entrepreneurship be taught?
Increasing women s entrepreneurial skills as a means to women s
economic self-sufficiency.
Entrepreneurial projects aimed at instituting social change (for
the public or specific groups).
Are feminism and business compatible?
Your ideas for additional topics are welcome. Invited are essays,
research reports, true stories, poetry, cartoons, drawings and other
artwork which addresses the experiences of entrepreneurial women
living in regions of Canada as well as around the world.
Deadline: August 30th, 1994.
Articles should be typed and double-spaced, 7-12 pages long (1500-2000
words). A short (50 word) abstract of the article and a brief
biographical note must accompany each submission. If your manuscript
has been word-processed, please include a disk copy. The disk will be
returned to you. We give preference to previously unpublished
material. If possible, please submit graphics or photographs to
accompany your article.
Write or call as soon as possible indicating your intention to submit
your work.
CANADIAN WOMAN STUDIES
212 Founders College, York University, 4700 Keele Street,
North York, Ontario, CANADA M3J 1P3
(416) 736-5356 Fax (416) 736-5700 (put extension 55356)
-or- email: c/o Sam Lanfranco, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
