Women Entrepreneurs from Craiova in the Interwar Period

Narcisa Maria MITU
3rd Degree Scientific Researcher, PhD., “C.S. Nicolăescu-Plopşor” Institute for Research in Social Studies and Humanities from Craiova, of the Romanian Academy, Romania;
E-mail: narcisa_mitu@yahoo.com

https://orcid.org/0009-0007-0632-4566

DOI: https://doi.org/10.59277/CSNPISSH.2023.08

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Published on December 3, 2023

Abstract
In the present material, there was intended the presentation of some of the Romanian women entrepreneurs who developed sole partnership businesses in Craiova, in the interwar period, as they were recorded in the archival documents and in different edited sources.
We notice that most entrepreneurs were housewives, they set up companies whose activities are handled by their husbands and, sometimes, their fathers, or a qualified person (he had a certificate) designated by proxy, but also people who had worked as commercial officials, gained experience working in commercial units, and who opened their own businesses. Analyzing the files of the companies registered with the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Craiova, and registered in the Trade Register, we identified several profiles of the woman trader in Craiova: having her own business; as guardian of the minor heirs; after her husband’s bankruptcy; as a result of the death of the spouse; as heiress

Keyword
Craiova, the interwar period, women entrepreneurs, individual firms, social firms

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