About 40 percent of all businesses in America today are owned by women.
Women start businesses at twice the rate of all business start-ups.
The greatest growth in women-owned businesses between 1992 and 1999 occurred in the construction, wholesale trade, transportation, communication, agriculture, and manufacturing industries. Despite progress, women business owners still face obstacles. Trends in the U.S. and the 50 States, and the Small Business Administration, Advocacy Report on Women in Business, October 1998.