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Female entrepreneurship has steadily increased in the United States during the 20th and 21st century, with number of female owned businesses increasing at a rate of 5% since 1997. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] This growth has led to the rise of wealthy self-made females such as Coco Chanel , Diane Hendricks , Meg Whitman , and Oprah Winfrey .
Some names such as Marie Curie and Ada Lovelace are widely known, many other women have been active inventors and innovators in a wide range of interests and applications, contributing important developments to the world in which we live. [2] [3] The following is a list of notable women innovators and inventors displayed by country.
This is a list of entrepreneurs by century. An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative. [ 1 ] This list includes notable entrepreneurs.
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The following is a list of women who have been elected or appointed head of state or government of their respective countries since the interwar period (1918–1939). The first list includes female presidents who are heads of state and may also be heads of government, as well as female heads of government who are not concurrently head of state, such as prime ministers.
Nearly 40% of female founders said that improving their work-life balance was the biggest catalyst for starting a business. Here's why women are quitting the workforce to become entrepreneurs.
Zihan Ling, entrepreneur and gender equality proponent, founded Techbase in 2015; Sheng Aiyi (1900–1983), entertainment entrepreneur, general manager of Shanghai BaiLeMen; Wu Ying (born 1981), former entrepreneur, convicted of fraud; Yang Huiyan (born 1981), majority shareholder of the Country Garden Holdings property group