Female Entrepreneurs? Perhaps, Women Should Say: "Me Too"

NEW YORK, Jan. 9, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Unless you're living under a rock, ever since the Harvey Weinstein scandal, daily news reports are detailing a never-ending litany of sexual harassment cases toward women in the workplace.  The daily barrage of #MeToo posts describing women's inappropriate treatment in the workplace, is, sadly, the new normal. 

With that in mind, now may be the time for women to start businesses of their own.  In fact, they've already accomplished that and more: according to research, the number of female-owned businesses grew five times faster than the national average in the last nine years.  In the U.S., the number of all women-owned firms grew by 45 percent as opposed to a nine percent increase among all firms between 2007-2016.

While that figure is impressive, not all states are created equally when it comes to a favourable business climate for female entrepreneurs.  Female business owners face their own unique set of challenges and obstacles in today's professional environment.  Establishing a business in a location most receptive to female entrepreneurs can be tremendously helpful.

Fit Small Business, an online publication serving small owners, helped identify which states are the most favourable to female entrepreneurs.  The publication assembled publicly-available data from leading sources including the U.S. Census Bureau, Womenable and American Express Open – and thoroughly analyzed it to determine the best states for female entrepreneurs.  The good news is that the Top 10 states for female entrepreneurs are scattered throughout the country.

The data can be found here.

Top 10 States for Women Entrepreneurs:
#1  Georgia
#2  Florida
#3  Maryland
#4  California
#5  Colorado
#6  Virginia
#7  New York
#8  Texas
#9  Hawaii
#10 New Mexico

Fit Small Business chose the following six categories which helped to determine a state's desirability for female business owners:

1. Percentage of women-owned firms out of total businesses in a state
2. Percentage of a state's business revenues coming from women-owned firms
3. Women economic clout in each state
4. Trend in net number of women-owned firms per day
5. Percentage of women-owned firms with paid employees
6. Percentage of employees in the state that are working in women-owned firms

"While news stories these days portray a dismal outlook for women in the workplace, we were encouraged to discover that female entrepreneurs are receiving more supportive treatment in a variety of states across the country," says Priyanka Prakash, Managing Editor, Fit Small Business.

About FitSmallBusiness.com:
With a rapidly growing monthly readership of more than 800,000. Fit Small Business is an online publication devoted to helping small business owners.  Its full-time staff of writers spends hours of research, data analysis, and interviews with industry experts to answer the questions that owners want in order to run a successful small business.

For more information on this list and this topic, please contact Sarah Johnson, [email protected], 917-864-6355.

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SOURCE Fit Small Business

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