- The most entrepreneurial age group for females is 35 – 44 (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, London Business School, February 2006) - Women are half as likely to be involved in start-up activity as men. Independent start-up activity amongst women is 3.1% of the female adult population but is 6% amongst men, while the equivalent figures for job related start-ups are 1.3% and 2.6%. (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, GEM, Jan 2004) - [...]
- In the United States, women-owned firms represent 38% of all firms; internationally, women-owned firms represent between 25% to 33% of the total business population. ( provided by nase.org ) - In 2007, 7.8 million firms were owned by women, accounting for 30% of all non-farm, privately-held firms in the U.S. Women-owned firms had sales/receipts of a whopping $1.2 trillion and had 7.6 million paid employees. - Between 1997 and [...]
- Women of color are much more likely than white women to cite lack of a mentor/sponsor as a barrier to advancement (47% vs. 29%) - 50% of women of color attribute their career success to “access to high-visibility assignments.” - More than half (53%) of women of color believe that corporate diversity programs are less than effective in dealing with issues of subtle racism - 17% of women of [...]
- 11.2% of corporate officers are women - 75% of Fortune 500 companies (376) have at least 1 women officer - Over half (258) of Fortune 500 companies have more than 1 female corporate officer. - 6% of corporate officers holding line jobs are women, while 94% are men - Savings institutions are the industry with the most women at the top—32% of corporate officers are women. Other top industries [...]
—————————————————————————————————————- (source opm.gov) —————————————————————————————————————- (source Norman J. Arnold School Of Public Health, University Of South Carolina) Rural minorities, and in particular poor minorities, are geographically concentrated in different regions: - Seven of every ten (70%) poor, non-metro African Americans live in six Southern states: Mississippi, Georgia, North Carolina, Louisiana, Alabama, and South Carolina. - Nearly three quarters (73%) of all poor, non-metro Hispanics live in five Southwestern states: Texas, New [...]
Graphs from women caucus Mothers Participating in Labor Force, 1955-2000 Percentage of mothers with children (Source US Census) 20 Leading Occupations of Employed Women (2000 annual averages) NOTE: n.a. = not available. Median not available where base is less than 50,000 male workers. 1. Wage and salary for full-time workers. 2. Not elsewhere classified. 3. Included in sales workers, personal, and retail services. 4. Includes foods, drugs, health, and other [...]