The question of whether and why women prefer self-employment to wage-employment in dealing with social space-work space interface has been on the research radar for some time. A careful scrutiny of research depictions of women in selfemployment points towards three frames for a better understanding of whether and why women choose self-employment over wage employment while engaging with social space-workspace dilemmas - the "pragmatic-accepting" (self-employment as an arrangement at the person level in tune with social space-workspace ground realities), the "organizational-managerial" (self-employment as flight from insensate managerialism), and the "structural-contradictory" (selfemployment as a fission triggered by resentful distress and strident protest against deeply embedded heedlessness).