When do female-owned businesses out-survive male-owned businesses? A disaggregated approach by industry and geography
结合社会建构论与女性主义理论，提出女性与男性拥有的企业存活差异因情境而异，并用一百万德克萨斯州独资企业数据验证，发现女性企业在多个行业和地区存活更久。
Studies have invoked several theoretical perspectives to explain differences between female-owned businesses and male-owned businesses. Yet, few have considered the possibility that differential outcomes between female-owned businesses and male-owned businesses vary from setting to setting, an insight that we derive by combining social constructionism with feminist theory. We articulate hypotheses regarding the outcome of business survival duration based on this insight. Then, using a dataset of one million Texan proprietorships, we test these hypotheses by estimating separate gender effects for many individual industries and geographic areas. We find that female-owned businesses consistently out-survive male-owned businesses in many industries and areas.