Margarita López-Antón
Female Entrepreneurship, gender and enterprise, gender and work, Financial history, retail history, Economic and Business History, Public Finance, Small Business, SMEs
Women in Business History
Dr. Margarita López-Antón is a Lecturer of the Business Departament of the Faculty of Economics and Business of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). She teaches Business Accounting undergraduate courses as well courses in the Master's Degree in Economic History (UB – UAB) and in the Master's Degree in Gender Studies (University of Zaragoza). Her research interests are gendered concepts of work and women’s occupations in Spain in the XVIII-XX centuries with special mention to female entrepreneurship in small business and SMEs and to the recalculation of the female activity rate. Awarded the Santiago Zapata Research Prize (2022) and she enjoyed an academic stay at the University of Cambridge (UK) (2022). She is a member of the project “The long-term transformation of the occupational structure, Spain 1700-1920. Non-agricultural occupations as a proxy for economic modernization”. (Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. Ref. PID2021-123863NB-C21, 2022-2025).