Entrepreneurship

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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Since the start of the pandemic, women, particularly women of color, have become the leading drivers of business creation in the U.S. In 2020 and 2021, women accounted for 49 percent of new business launches, according to a study by Gusto, a human resources software company, compared to 42 percent for men in 2021. Meanwhile, …

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The federal government does want to promote underrepresented groups in entrepreneurship – mostly women and minorities. But unfortunately, it’s not through the tax code. Everyone is subject to the same tax laws, and everyone has access to the same deductions. However, federal, state, county, and city governments around the country have programs that can help your business including business development opportunities, government sponsored grants and loans, and much more!

If any businesses certainly need every available advantage when it comes to success, its minority-owned businesses. Federal laws have been created to protect minority businesses and ensure equality in business resource access. Even though minority-owned businesses have been making increased strides in industry access and parity, there is still a long way to go.

More women are self-employed now than prior to the pandemic — particularly Black and Hispanic women and those without bachelor’s degrees, finds a new analysis from the Center for Economic and Policy Research.