‘I’ve never paid myself’: why the reality for female entrepreneurs doesn’t always match the rhetoric

By Sarah Marks, Lecturer in HRM and Organisational Behaviour, Swansea University

Inspiring stories of female entrepreneurs are a familiar part of International Women’s Day. Typically, these portraits follow a narrative arc of adversity, resilience, passion and success. The message is that women are skilled, resourceful and successful entrepreneurs.

However, one thing you are unlikely to learn from these role model stories is how much (or perhaps more pertinently, how little) money the founder pays herself. While this partly reflects taboos on discussing money, it…

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