But we found that most home-based workers are men performing traditional work in fields like sales and construction. The study, which Prof. Stafford did in collaboration with Barbara R. Rowe at Purdue University, in West Lafeyette, Ind., and George W. Haynes at Montana State University in Bozeman, parallels one of 2,000 households nationwide by International Data Corp., a Framingham, Mass., market-research firm. Not only are there more men than women operating home-based businesses, but these business owners are better educated and more affluent than the rest of the population, the IDC report shows. In California and other West Coast states, where telecommuting is very popular, Ms. Porter says many of the workers are software engineers. And most of them are male.
Home businesses aid the economy, too.
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