Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/330504 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Citation: 
[Journal:] Essays in Economic & Business History (EEBH) [ISSN:] 2376-9459 [Volume:] 42 [Issue:] 1 [Year:] 2024 [Pages:] 59-89
Publisher: 
Economic and Business History Society (EBHS), Rockford, MI
Abstract: 
Commercial education emerged when women's rights were limited and single-gender schools dominated. Inevitably this system created differences in educational attainment and contributed to unequal gender roles in business organizations. This article examines an alternative trajectory in the rise of business education by focusing on a developing country, where women had economic rights-prerevolutionary Russia. It finds that in the traditional merchant apprenticeship system women were typically family members, so ownership was more important for their authority than expertise. In commercial schools, men and women received similar training, but different assumptions about female education and professional life made it much harder for women to claim authority based on their qualifications.
Subjects: 
authority
business education
business ownership
clerical work
gender
specialized knowledge
JEL: 
N33
I21
J16
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Article

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