this finding is also different from the findings of the canadian research cibc as we summarised in the previous section younger welleducated and single women are more successful in the canadian case an overall evaluation of the study show that independent women who start and run businesses on their own had working experience in the fields in which they were interested in starting their businesses they were educated and knew how to gain more knowledge that could help them develop their businesses a common characteristic of these independent women is that they are coming from a modern family with a modern attitude toward women have a high level of education working experience and other types of human capital that can be counted as a socioeconomic resource for immigrant businesswomen