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Other research has shown that women entrepreneurs are already launching ambitious businesses in the high-technology industry, expanding their social networks, and making their pitches more relatable to the male-dominated VC industry, despite many industry people believing that women are not doing that.
As part of her dissertation research at Rutgers University, Fernández-Kelly designed an ethnographic study that included participant observation, the administration of a survey, and the collection of oral histories about young women employed in "maquiladoras"—i.e. directly owned subsidiaries or subcontracted operations connected to American ...
Women in internal audit: Perspectives from around the world. Altamonte Springs, FL: The IIA Research Foundation 2016. Hine, Darlene Clark. Facts on File Encyclopedia of Black Women in America: Business and Professions (1997) Krismann, Carol. Encyclopedia of American Women in Business From Colonial Times to the Present (2004)
[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.
Sheila Johnson, America’s first Black female billionaire, on her post-BET act: ‘I see business opportunities and just walk through the door’ Ruth Umoh September 20, 2023 at 12:18 PM
The National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) is an organization in the United States founded in 1975 that has the purpose of networking the approximately 10.6 million women-owned businesses so as to provide mutual support, share resources, and provide a single voice to help shape economic and public policy. As of 2025, the ...
Women in America: Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being is a report issued in 2011 by the United States Department of Commerce Economics and Statistics Administration and the Executive Office of the President Office of Management and Budget for the White House Council on Women and Girls, during the administration of President Barack Obama. [1]
The Promoting Women in Entrepreneurship Act (Pub. L. 115–6 (text), H.R. 255) is a public law amendment to the Science and Engineering Equal Opportunities Act (Pub. L. 96–516) to authorize the National Science Foundation to encourage its entrepreneurial programs to recruit and support women to extend their focus beyond the laboratory and into the commercial world.