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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.
There were 337 women listed on the world's billionaires as of 4 April 2023, up from 327 in 2022. [1] Since 2021, Françoise Bettencourt Meyers has been listed as the world's wealthiest woman. According to a 2021 billionaire census, women make up 11.9% of the billionaire cohort, and "just over half of all female billionaires are heiresses, with ...
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.
Kalpana Saroj (born 1961) is an Indian business woman, entrepreneur and a TEDx speaker, [1] and the chairperson of Kamani Tubes in Mumbai, India.Known as Indian Woman entrepreneur, she bought the distressed assets of Kamani Tubes Company and successfully steered the company back to profitability.
Melinda French Gates [2] (born Melinda Ann French; August 15, 1964) is an American philanthropist and a former multimedia product developer and manager at Microsoft.Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, she graduated from Duke University and started working at Microsoft in 1987.
Since 2004, Forbes, an American business magazine, has published an annual list of its ranking of the 100 most powerful women in the world. Edited by prominent Forbes journalists, including Moira Forbes , the list is compiled using various criteria such as visibility and economic impact.
Newsweek named Dai one of the "150 Women Who Shake the World." [20] She has been profiled by CNN International for the Leading Women Innovator Series. [21] In 2004, Dai was a recipient of the EY Entrepreneur of the Year award. [22] On May 12, 2012, Dai became the first female commencement speaker at the UC Berkeley College of Engineering. [23]
Women with a net worth or wealth equal or greater than one billion United States dollars, euros, British pounds or units of a comparably valued currency. This includes both women who earned their wealth themselves and those who have inherited their wealth.