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| BizWomen.com A premier online resource for women business executives and entrepreneurs. Through their focus on women in business, they aim to facilitate networking; offer business and professional advice; recognize women business leaders; and provide a marketplace for women- owned and operated businesses. |
| Business and Professional Women/USA Founded in 1919, Business and Professional Women/USA, promotes equity for all women in the workplace through advocacy, education and information. With 1,500 Local Organizations across the country and members in every congressional district, BPW/USA is the leading advocate for millions of workingwomen on work-life balance and workplace equity issues. BPW Local Organizations provide members with professional development programs, networking, participation in grassroots activism, and opportunities to support scholarships for disadvantaged women. |
| Catalyst An independent, nonprofit membership organization that conducts research on all aspects of women’s career advancement and provides strategic and web-based consulting services globally. In addition, Catalyst honors exemplary business initiatives that promote women’s leadership with the annual Catalyst Award. |
| Center for International Private Enterprise Women's Initiative CIPE supports women and youth in activities ranging from basic training for entrepreneurs to more sophisticated models, organizational strengthening, and grooming future leaders in countries such as Afghanistan, Montenegro, Turkey, and Nicaragua. CIPE’s approach is to provide these disenfranchised groups with tools to become effective leaders, to organize themselves, and to begin effectively representing their own interests. |
| Characteristics of Self-Employed Women in the United States This excerpt is from an article published in the March 1994 issue of the Monthly Labor Review. The full text of the article is available for download as well. |
| Enterprising Women Magazine that taps into the powerful, emerging market of women business owners. |
| FCEM - Les Femmes Chefs d'Enterprises Mondiales The worldwide network of women business owners, promoting and reinforcing women’s entrepreneurial initiative worldwide. |
| Minority Business Entrepreneur A magazine that serves as a nationwide forum for minority and women business owners, corporations and government agencies concerned with minority enterprise development. MBE magazine examines affirmative action and procurement programs in the public and private sectors, and provides in-depth coverage of crucial issues affecting the growth and survival of minority- and woman-owned businesses. |
| Prowess: Promoting Women's Enterprise Support The UK association of organizations and individuals who support women to start and grow businesses, through the development of an effective women-friendly business support infrastructure and enterprise culture. |
| Socio-Economic/Women-Owned Businesses Online Tap into the most extensive file of socio-economic and women-owned businesses in the nation. Search through 1.6 million women-owned businesses and 550,000 minority-owned businesses in the U.S. by line of business, by ethnic group, and geographic and alphabetically. |
| Survey of Business Owners and Self-Employed Persons This survey provides statistics that describe the composition of U.S. businesses by gender, race, and ethnicity. Additional statistics include owner's age, education level, veteran status, and primary function in the business; family- and home-based businesses; types of customers and workers; and sources of financing for expansion, capital improvements, or start-up. |
| Survey of Women Owned Business Enterprises View valuable economic data on business owners' race, ethnicity, and gender. These surveys are part of the economic census program, which the Census Bureau is required to conduct every 5 years by law. |
| Women-owned Businesses Economic Research Preliminarily information on women and minorities in business, conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau; provides data on the number of firms, sales and receipts, employment, and annual payroll for kind of business, by gender, Hispanic or Latino origin, and race. |
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