How is the Illusio of Gender Equality in Entrepreneurship Sustained? A Bourdieusian Perspective
基于对伦敦49位女性创业者的访谈，运用布迪厄理论揭示性别平等幻象的两种形式（工作生活平衡幻象和精英统治幻象），并说明女性如何通过资本交换来维持这种幻象，从而再生产创业领域的性别不平等。
Abstract Studies of gender and entrepreneurship highlight the problematic emphasis of the gender equality discourse in entrepreneurship that ignores wider structural inequalities but provide a limited explanation of how the allure of this discourse is sustained. To address this lacuna, we draw on Bourdieu's theoretical ideas to theorize and demonstrate how certain women trade‐off their capital endowments to compensate for gender inequality in entrepreneurship. Through an analysis of forty‐nine biographical interviews with women entrepreneurs in London (UK), we show two forms that the ‘illusio’ of gender equality manifests: ‘illusio of work‐life balance’, and ‘illusio of meritocracy’, and reveal how this doxic experience that escapes questioning and allows certain women to continue to play the game, entrenches the illusio of an entrepreneurial field free from gender bias. We thus illustrate the conditions of possibility and the various trade‐off mechanisms through which gender inequality in entrepreneurship is reproduced or contested.