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Female entrepreneurship has been recognized as an important source of economic growth. Female entrepreneurs create new jobs for themselves and others and also provide society with different solutions to management, organisation, and business problems. However, they still represent a minority of all entrepreneurs.
Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu (born 1980) is an Ethiopian businesswoman, founder, and executive director of soleRebels, Africa's "fastest growing footwear company". Bethlehem has received honors and accolades for her business acumen, as well as her efforts to shift the discourse on Africa away from poverty to the continent's entrepreneurial spirit, social capital, and economic potential. [1]
Roger E. Axtell, Tami Briggs, Margaret Corcoran, and Mary Beth Lamb, Do's and Taboos Around the World for Women in Business; Douglas Branson, No Seat at the Table: How Corporate Governance and Law Keep Women Out of the Boardroom; Christ, M. H. 2016. Women in internal audit: Perspectives from around the world.
Minding Your Business: A Guide Book for Women Entrepreneurs. Lindahl, Lisa Z. (2017). Beauty as Action: The Way of True Beauty and How Its Practice Can Change Our World. EZL Enterprises. ISBN 9780998746708. Lindahl, Lisa Z. (2019). Unleash the Girls: The Untold Story of the Invention of the Sports Bra and How It Changed the World (And Me).
Palmer was acknowledged in the World Bank report "Women's Economic Opportunities in the Formal Private Sector in Latin America and the Caribbean: A focus on Entrepreneurship in 2010 for her entrepreneurial pursuits and was cited as one of Jamaica's most successful female entrepreneurs". [5] [7]
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This is a list of women CEOs of the Fortune 500, based on the magazine's 2024 list (updated yearly). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] As of Sept. 2024, women were CEOs at 10.4% of Fortune 500 companies. Fortune 500 women CEOs as of 2024 (52 women)
Dai is a successful entrepreneur, [2] and the only female co-founder of a major semiconductor company. [3] In 2015, she was listed as the 95th richest woman in the world by Forbes . [ 1 ] Her estimated net worth is US$1.3 billion, as of June 2024.