- Women-owned businesses generate over $3 trillion in sales annually. (National Foundation of Women Business Owners) - Women make up 73 percent of all shoppers in the US; they spend 80 cents of every dollar - Women are nearly half the managerial workforce. They hold 49 percent of managerial and professional specialty positions - Women are shareholders. Using their own resources, women make up over 40 percent of investors. Technorati [...]
- 75% of business women who use the Internet are going online to gather information prior to making purchases. - 72% of women business owners have invested in stocks, bonds and mutual funds; 58% of women employees have invested. - 42% of women business owners frequent malls; 59% of women employees frequent malls. - 57% of women business owners who use the Internet have purchased products or services online, compared [...]
- 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 [...]
- 60% of all marriages are dual-earner marriages; members of dual-earner families make up 45% of the workforce - 69.9% of women and 61.8% of men in dual-career couples, say that a wage-earning spouse gives them more freedom to leave their company if not satisfied - 56% of men in two-career marriages report that having a working wife has a positive impact on their careers. 65% of women indicate the [...]
- 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 [...]
( click here for Charts and Graphs ) Boards - Women hold 11.1% of board seats in the Fortune 500 - 86% of Fortune 500 companies (429 companies) have at least one or more women director; 14% (71 companies) have no women on their boards. - 188 companies in the Fortune 500 have 2 or more women directors; 34 companies have three or more women directors. - Of Fortune 100 [...]
- Women of mixed ethnicity are over two and a half times more entrepreneurial than white women (ibid GEM, London Business School, 2006) - BAME female entrepreneurship is clustered in areas of multiple deprivation, suggesting that ‘employment substitution’ is taking place with low-paid work being sub-contracted and women having to act on their own account (ibid Harding 2007) - The predominant source of start-up finance for many ethnic groups is [...]
- For the UK as a whole, women are more likely than men to be involved with a socially orientated start-up 5.8% of women compared to 4.9% of men. (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Focus on Social Entrepreneurs, GEM 2004) - Women are more likely than men to think that social, ethical and environmental considerations in business are important. (59% compared with 48%) (A Survey of Social Enterprise Across the UK, DTi, [...]