Entrepreneurship

Black women make up less than 10% of the U.S. population, but they’ve emerged as the fastest-growing group of entrepreneurs.

While we are working to ease it, the gender in entrepreneurship continues to expand. Women are underrepresented in entrepreneurship in nearly all developed nations, and the gender disparity is startling.

Entrepreneurs are hailed as economic heroes and drivers of job growth. Yet an analysis of Current Population Survey data of U.S. residents between ages 50–64 demonstrates that entrepreneurs disproportionately lack health insurance and workplace retirement savings program coverage.

Breaking the societal norms and stereotypes, they are surpassing all challenges that come their way. The coming year is for women-led startups. There are reasons to believe that.

DACA has empowered its recipients to pursue entrepreneurship and continue helping their families, their communities, and the U.S. economy in the face of significant barriers.

We must stop the Supreme Court’s affirmative action decision from making our workplaces less equitable, too.

Learn how many businesses are owned by women, how much VC funding women get, how profitable women-led businesses are and much more!

Starting a business is always challenging. While women have historically faced additional challenges, some female founders say the landscape is changing for the better.

We’ll explore some facts and figures about women-owned businesses in the U.S. and share tips from successful women entrepreneurs on how they overcame some of the challenges females can face in the entrepreneurial world.

The business world is changing, and women entrepreneurs are at the forefront of this transformation. Over the years, women-owned businesses have been growing at an unprecedented rate, with more and more women opting to start their ventures and make a name for themselves in the market. While women entrepreneurs have been making strides in various …

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For some women, running their own business can give them more flexibility to care for kids or spend time with family. But it’s still an imperfect solution to the gender pay gap.

D.C. Councilmember Christina Henderson explained to the crowd at the National Maternal and Infant Health Summit that she has an “adversarial relationship with a proverb.” The maxim in question? “It takes a village” to raise a child. Henderson’s beef is with the imagery. The “village” has historically centered godparents, friends, grandparents and so on. But …

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