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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.
Updated March 7, 2017 at 2:09 PM Women in Business Surging As of 2016, women held about 24 percent of all senior business roles in the world, which was up about 2 percent from 2015.
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 ...
Janice Bryant Howroyd (born September 1, 1952) is an entrepreneur, businesswoman, and author. She is founder and chief executive officer of The ActOne Group, [1] the largest privately held, minority-woman-owned personnel company founded in the U.S. [2] [3] Howroyd is the first African-American woman to build and own a billion dollar company.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (born 23 March 1953) is an Indian billionaire entrepreneur. [3] She is the executive chairperson and founder of Biocon Limited and Biocon Biologics Limited, [4] a biotechnology company based in Bangalore, India [5] and the former chairperson of Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. [6]
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.