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RISING WOMEN EXPERTS...
Where are business women at on the Canadian entrepreneur forefront?
By RWM Experts
Being a women and being in business is the future of the Canadian landscape!
Not only are the number of women-owned businesses growing at “a rate twice
the national average for all businesses, our businesses are creating
employment at four times the average rate for all businesses.” This
inspiring statistic has been borrowed from a report published by Bennett
Gold, Chartered Accountants, which further states that “today women-owned
businesses are just as successful as any other business and their survival
rates are identical to the average Canadian business.”
According to Shattering the Glass Box?, a report on Women Entrepreneurs and
the Knowledge-Based Economy from Industry Canada, the number of
self-employed women are growing at an average of twice the percentage of
self-employed men. I wonder if the loan managers at the banks are aware of
this?
Now before any of you critics are evaluating the type of businesses women
are launching to satisfy these statistics, read the following facts.
Industry Canada’s Shattering the Glass Box? further reports that the
knowledge-based economy is being taken by storm by “Diva’s in Heels” (per
se) across the country! Industries such as manufacturing, engineering,
architecture, construction and law are experiencing ever increasing numbers
of the “woman influence”. Shattering the Glass Box? reports that in 1996
alone the number of women entrepreneurs providing services to agriculture,
rather than being directly involved in agriculture, increased 95.6 percent,
while the number of women entrepreneurs providing business consulting,
rather than accounting and bookkeeping services, rose 51.3 percent. I wonder
what the statistics are for companies within the above industries that are
being developed, launched and operated by the many amazingly successful
women proprietors. And isn’t it satisfying to know that as women we have the
power to not only birth families, we are now birthing empires. “The Donald”
is old news, “The Ivana” is what’s hot!
Now from an irritating perspective, Shattering the Glass Box? has also
reported that on the average self-employed women still earn less than
self-employed men. Part of this difference is accounted for by hours worked.
Though I beg to differ, Industry Canada’s report stated that “in 1997,
self-employed women worked one third fewer hours per week than self-employed
men.” Now don’t get me started!
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