Life Stories of Women Care Entrepreneurs

Life Stories of Women Care Entrepreneurs

Description

The study charted how care entrepreneurs formed their professional identities. The data, collected in 2004-2005, consist of 33 life stories written by women who worked as entrepreneurs in the field of care all over Finland. The topics discussed in the life stories included reasons for becoming a care entrepreneur, creating the enterprise, operation, principles and values of the enterprise, difficulties, the future, and good sides of being an entrepreneur. The archived material includes 101 pages, and the length of a single life story ranges from 1 to 13 pages. The dataset is only available in Finnish.
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Year of publication

2009

Authors

Tietoarkisto - Publisher

University of Tampere. Department of Women's Studies

Hasanen, Kirsi - Creator

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Fields of science

SOCIAL SCIENCES

Open access

Restricted access

License

Other (Not Open)

Keywords

social services, home help, kotipalvelut, Sosiaalipalveluiden käyttö ja saatavuus, Specific social services: use and availability, Employment, Työllisyys ja työllistyminen, businesses, entrepreneurs, yrittäjät, Life-long/continuing education, Täydennys- ja jatkokoulutus, elinikäinen oppiminen, elämäkerrat, naiset, women, hoitoala, Yritysten hallinto, johtaminen ja organisaatio, päiväkodit, kuntoutus, Business/industrial management and organisation, hoitokodit, hoivayrittäjät, hoivayritykset, palvelukodit
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