Showing posts with label closed doors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label closed doors. Show all posts

Saturday, June 16, 2018

Saluting the Notable and Visible Women in Business

Let's take a moment to salute and congratulate the notable and visible women in business.  As Deborah Levine (pictured), editor of the American Diversity Report, writes at the Times Free Press:
The national number of women-owned businesses grew 45 percent between 2007 and 2016, five times faster than the national average. Their flight to entrepreneurship may be a rejection of corporate dead ends and closed doors to the executive suite. But their entrepreneurship is driving our economy to the tune of 3 trillion dollars.
Read more to learn what this growth means for women and how venture capital is still, sadly, hard to come by for women business owners.