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Female entrepreneurs are women who organize and manage an enterprise, particularly a business. [1] 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.
Women have a more difficult time raising funds when starting a business. [54] In 2021, female entrepreneurs received only 1% of venture capital financing. As a comparison, female entrepreneurs in the United States received 2% of total venture capital funds in 2021, the smallest share since 2016. [55] [56]
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.
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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.
It includes 21st-century businesspeople that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Subcategories This category has the following 44 subcategories, out of 44 total.
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.
Thailand has the highest proportion of female CEOs in the world, with 30 percent of companies employing female CEOs, followed by the People's Republic of China, with 19 percent. [2] In the European Union the figure is 9 percent and in the United States it is 5 percent. [2] In 2024, 10.4% of the CEOs at companies in the Fortune 500 were female. [3]