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  2. Female entrepreneurs - Wikipedia

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    Lower levels of wealth, access to capital, racial discrimination and inadequate networks have been and continue to be barriers to entrepreneurship women of colour face. [9] The term entrepreneur is used to describe individuals who have ideas for products and/or services that they turn into a working business. In earlier times, this term was ...

  3. Entrepreneurial feminism - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] Coined by Barbara Orser and Catherine Elliott, entrepreneurship is viewed as a mechanism to create economic self-sufficiency and equity-based outcomes for girls and women. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Entrepreneurial feminists enter commercial markets to create wealth and social change, based on the ethics of cooperation, equality, and mutual respect.

  4. Women in business - Wikipedia

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    The barriers women face to becoming entrepreneurs are exemplified through the perspectives of existing female entrepreneurs in Kenya. Mary Okello, the executive director of a cluster of private schools called Makini schools, discussed the difficulty of accessing loans.

  5. Woman-owned business - Wikipedia

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    Research shows that in most countries there are significant challenges for women business owners in comparison to men business owners. [4] [5] These challenges stem from many sources, including social and cultural stigmas, family and child-rearing responsibilities, maternity needs, educational background, career experience, and community support. [6]

  6. Women's Business Ownership Act - Wikipedia

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    The Women's Business Ownership Act of 1988 was an act of the United States Congress introduced by John LaFalce aimed at aiding the success of women business entrepreneurs. [1] [2] It provides a basis for policies, programs, and public/private sector initiatives supporting women's business endeavors. [3]

  7. Promoting Women in Entrepreneurship Act - Wikipedia

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    The Promoting Women in Entrepreneurship Act (Pub. L. Tooltip Act of Congress#Public law, private law, designation 115–6 (text), H.R. 255) is a public law amendment to the Science and Engineering Equal Opportunities Act (Pub. L. Tooltip Act of Congress#Public law, private law, designation 96–516) to authorize the National Science Foundation to encourage its entrepreneurial programs to ...

  8. Women's Entrepreneurship Day - Wikipedia

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    Women's Entrepreneurship Day was founded and implemented by Pet Pioneer, Animal Fair Media [2] Founder and Ellis Island Medal of Honor [3] recipient Wendy Diamond, [4] after volunteering with the Adelante Foundation who provides microcredit to low income women while in Honduras. Upon her return to the US she decided she wanted to develop ...

  9. Women in the workforce - Wikipedia

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    As of 2009, 90 women serve in the U.S. Congress: 18 women serve in the Senate, and 73 women serve in the House Women hold about three percent of executive positions. [ 40 ] In the private sector, men still represent 9 out of 10 board members in European blue-chip companies, The discrepancy is widest at the very top: only 3% of these companies ...