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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]
[citation needed] According to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor report, “women are nearly one-third more likely to start businesses out of necessity than men.” [16] Because women are overtaking their male peers in the level of education obtained, [17] having higher education degrees is one of the significant characteristics that many ...
National initiatives to support the growth of women's business ownership include Prowess in the UK. [11] In India, supporting groups include WeConnect, [12] WEI, [13] and some specific bank-sponsored loan schemes. [14] In Europe, the Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan is aimed at supporting women business owners, among other initiatives. [15]
[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.
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.
Erin Huiatt, owner of the Des Moines Parent website, has been named SBA's Iowa Women in Business Champion of the Year for 2024. Erin Huiatt, owner of the Des Moines Parent website, has been named ...
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)
Women's Entrepreneurship Day was founded and implemented by Pet Pioneer, Animal Fair Media [2] Founder and Ellis Island Medal of Honor [3] recipient Wendy Diamond, [4] after volunteering with the Adelante Foundation who provides microcredit to low income women while in Honduras. Upon her return to the US she decided she wanted to develop ...