Women: The Entrepreneurs of the 1980s

Abstract

In 1977 President Jimmy Carter appointed a task force to study the problems of women entrepreneurs; the report subsequently issued recommended that government programs be initiated over a five to ten year period to aid and stimulate the participation of women in the mainstream of business ownership. Since 1978 the growth in the number of businesses owned by women has been phenomenal; in 1984 the Small Business Administration reported that the number of self‐employed women had increased from 1.7 million in 1977 to 3.5 million. One‐fourth of the small businesses in the United States are now owned by women. Women started businesses at a rate six times faster than men from 1974 to 1984, but generated less than ten percent of the total business receipts in the United States. This reflects the fact that most businesses owned by women tend to be small service‐related enterprises.

Citation

Joos, M. (1987), "Women: The Entrepreneurs of the 1980s", Reference Services Review, Vol. 15 No. 3, pp. 59-65. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb048990