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In the first and second centuries CE a small elite of affluent slaves and wealthy free persons prospered in Rome amidst a mass of impoverished free inhabitants and impecunious enslaved people. Roman Inequality reconstructs the role that slaves and women played in this economy.

In the first and second centuries CE a small elite of affluent slaves and wealthy free persons prospered in Rome amidst a mass of impoverished free inhabitants and impecunious enslaved people. 'Roman Inequality' reconstructs the role that slaves and women played in this economy.

Chapter 1. Introduction. Women and the Industrialization Process: Bringing Female Entrepreneurs out of the Shadows -- Chapter 2. Women and Business in Urban Northern Europe -- Chapter 3. Female Factory Owners in the Industry of Moscow, 1840s–1860s -- Chapter 4. The Story of Rosa – The Fall of a Female Entrepreneur in the Nineteenth Century Pest-Buda -- Chapter 5. Doing Contexts. Women in Family Narratives -- Chapter 6. Handelsfrauen: On the Legal Conditions of Women's Commercial Activity in the Long Nineteenth Century in Central Europe -- Chapter 7. The Woman Trader in French Law in the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 8. Self-Employed Women as Small Traders - Manufacturers and Retailers in the City of Bologna in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 9. Filomena Ferrari: From Farmer to Entrepreneur; A Successful Case of Swiss Migration to Italy in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 10. Women, Wealth, and Business (Milan, Nineteenth Century) -- Chapter 11. Noblewomen, business and financial management in nineteenth-century France -- Chapter 12. A Female Competitor to the Miners of the Pyrenees: How Did Her Rivals View Claudine Le Breton-Pignal? -- Chapter 13. Myths and Biases: An Exploration of Women's Historical Patenting Activities.

In line with its mission to enhance networking and communication by extending ties with international organizations working on gender issues, Al-Raida will be reprinting policy and issue briefs prepared by the International Labour Organization in its upcoming issues. The purpose of this joint venture is to promote research on the condition of women in the Arab world, especially with respect to social change and development, and to reach out to women and empower them through consciousness-raising. This brief below is reprinted with permission from the International Labour Organization Regional Office for Arab States published by ILO, 2008.In line with its mission to enhance networking and communication by extending ties with internationalorganizations working on gender issues, Al-Raida will be reprinting policy and issue briefs preparedby the International Labour Organization in its upcoming issues. The purpose of this joint venture is topromote research on the condition of women in the Arab world, especially with respect to social change anddevelopment, and to reach out to women and empower them through consciousness-raising. This brief belowis reprinted with permission from the International Labour Organization Regional Office for Arab Statespublished by ILO, 2008.

Les préjugés et la discrimination sont souvent considérés responsables du petit nombre de femmes ambitieuses ayant réussi à atteindre des postes de direction dans les affaires. Le présent article démontre que l'insuccès de bien des femmes est dûà d'autres facteurs plus importants. L'analyse est fondée sur des interviews en profondeur auprès d'un choix de femmes d'affaires de Delhi, Sydney et Montréal.Prejudice and discrimination are often cited as accounting for the small number of ambitious women who have worked their way up to executive business positions. This paper contends that there are other, more important factors that are responsible for the failure of many women to succeed. The study is based on intensive interviews with a selection of businesswomen resident in Delhi, Sydney, and Montreal