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Women Entrepreneurs Thriving Worldwide
According to the newly released Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2014 Women's Report, entrepreneurial activity among women has increased by seven percent across 61 economies worldwide in just two years.
Women entrepreneurs in nearly half of the surveyed economies are now equal to, or even outpacing their male counterparts in terms of innovationdemonstrating a CSgrowing parity between men and women selling products and services that are new to consumers and not generally offered by competitors.
The report, sponsored by Babson College, Universidad Del Desarrollo, Universiti Tun Abdul Razak (UNIRAZAK), and Tecnolgico de Monterrey, serves as the most comprehensive research ever conducted on women's entrepreneurship and confirms that more than 200 million women entrepreneurs are starting or running new businesses in 83 economies across the globe. An additional 128 million are running established businesses.
"Promoting women's entrepreneurship requires more than increasing the rate in which women start businesses," says Babson College professor and report author Donna Kelley.
"Our GEM research shows that women entrepreneurs are frequently innovative, which demonstrates the impact they can have on their societies. Supporting women's aspirations to innovate could be an important means of creating businesses with a competitive edge, and those with novel solutions to improve people's lives."
Also, the more women participate in the workforce, relative to men, the more likely they are to be, or become, entrepreneurs. This conclusion derives from an analysis of total early-stage entrepreneurial activity (TEA) in relation to gender gap indicators measured by the World Economic Forum (WEF).
In economies with a greater proportion of women starting businesses - in teams of three or more co-foundersthere is also a greater likelihood they will have job-creation ambitions.
"The 2014 GEM Women's Report helps us better understand the diversity among women business owners and their businesses, including an important recognition of the value created by women working in teams within, and across, their businesses," adds Babson College professor and report author Patricia Greene.
Women around the world, on average, are also pursuing opportunity-driven entrepreneurial activity proportionate to men, resulting in a smaller gender gap in the percentage of entrepreneurs with opportunity motivations in every region.
And in10economies, women are as or more likely to be entrepreneurs than men. They include El Salvador and Brazil in Latin America and the Caribbean; Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines in Southeast Asia; and Zambia, Nigeria, Uganda, and Ghana in Africa.
"In most economies, the prescriptions for success are based on studies of male entrepreneurs. In the past two decades, the rise of women entrepreneurs helps us to better understand the factors leading to start-up success and growth of both men and women entrepreneurs," says Babson College Vice Provost of Global Entrepreneurial Leadership and report author Candida Brush. "GEM data is central to providing this information."
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