The number of self-employed women has been on a steady increase during the past 30 years.
Women are starting new firms at twice the rate of all other businesses. Female-owned firms number 9.1 million, or nearly 40 percent of all U.S. businesses.
Together they employ 27.5 million people and generate more than $3.6 trillion in sales, according to the National Association of Women Business Owners.
And yet…the conversation about women and our rights is heating up.
Call it the war on women. Call it women can’t have it all. Call it the mommy wars. Call it what you like. But it feels like we’ve regressed 50 years in the past six months. (more…)