Beauty & the Biz
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Did you know?
50% of all privately-held U.S. businesses
are 50% or more women-owned.  
This means that 10.6 million businesses
are at least half owned by a woman or women.


About 35%
of all Hispanic owned businesses
are owned by women.


Businesses owned by women of color are growing at
6 times
the rate of all U.S. businesses.


Hispanic women owned businesses generate about
$44.4 billion in sales.
(As of 2004)  Also as of 2004, women of color owned businesses
generated nearly $147 billion in sales.

Can you believe ... ?

One in 11
adult women
is an entrepreneur.


One in 7 employees
in the United States
works in a woman-owned
business.




Women owners are more likely
to have started their companies
than men owners,
rather than have purchased,
inherited, or acquired in some
other way.



Between 1997 & 2004,
African-American
women-owned businesses
grew by nearly 33%.

Hispanic
women-owned businesses
grew by nearly 64%.

Asian & Pacific Islanders &
Native Americans /
Alaska Natives
women-owned businesses
both grew by nearly 70%.