1 while between 1972 and 1977, the number of women-owned businesses remained relatively stable. The number of women-owned businesses with paid employees grew by more than 11 percent each year between 1977 and 1992. These figures represented 33 percent of all businesses in the United States and 35 percent of all firms with employees in the United States.
Individual proprietorships are unincorporated businesses owned by a woman.
Partnerships are unincorporated businesses owned by two or more persons where the majority of the firm is women-owned. This represents 11 percent of inflation-adjusted sales and receipts for all proprietorships, partnerships and Subchapter S corporations in the United States. Women-owned businesses with employees accounted for 17 percent of sales and receipts for all business in the United States. The gap indicates that substantial profits may have accrued to women business owners over the decade. If this gap continues, we may expect that more and more women will start their own businesses to acquire these profits.