Tech for Good: 10 Female Leaders Making a Positive Impact | The Startup Magazine

March 26, 2025March 25, 2025 ~ knjohn ~ Leave a comment

When it comes to startups, females are making strides on a number of fronts.

For example, the United States has seen a surge of women choosing the path of entrepreneurship. According to the 2024 Impact of Women-Owned Businesses report there are 14 million women-owned businesses, employing nearly 12.2 million people and generating $2.7 trillion in revenue. This makes up a total of 39.1% of all U.S. businesses.

Data also suggests that female entrepreneurs have a powerful influence on other areas of the workplace. A landmark global study found that female-owned businesses empower other women and employ more women on average than male-owned businesses.

Yet despite these positive changes, gender-based discrimination in the corporate workplace is actually on the up after years of progressive change. The Young Women’s Association found that workplace discrimination against women hit a three-year high in 2024.

Solutions to the Biggest Challenges Female Entrepreneurs Face | businessnewsdaily.com

July 14, 2022July 13, 2022 ~ knjohn ~ Leave a comment

Being an entrepreneur isn’t easy. From cash flow problems to marketing woes, business owners have to overcome a lot of obstacles to become successful. This is especially true for female entrepreneurs.

Women have made great strides in the business world, but they still face problems their male counterparts don’t. Business News Daily talked to female entrepreneurs about challenges they encounter and how they overcome them.

5 Strategies for Women to Manage Business Finances | AllBusiness.com

November 4, 2021November 1, 2021 ~ knjohn ~ Leave a comment

The well-documented wage, lending, and funding gaps experienced by female entrepreneurs make an already difficult subject—business finances—even more tricky to navigate. Consider, for example, that according to survey findings from Intuit QuickBooks, during the COVID-19 pandemic women-owned businesses were more likely to report being rejected for loans or lines for credit, with a 16% rejection rate compared to an 11% rejection rate of small businesses overall. In addition, Facebook’s recent State of Small Business report shows that female-owned businesses were more likely to have closed during the pandemic compared to the global average.

Male vs. Female Entrepreneurs: How Are They Different? | Business News Daily

March 25, 2020March 24, 2020 ~ knjohn ~ Leave a comment

Nearly all entrepreneurs are self-starters with passion and goals for their business. However, there are a few differences in how male and female entrepreneurs choose to run their businesses.

In a survey by Bank of America, male and female entrepreneurs were questioned about their business practices and views of their lifestyles.

While some characteristics, such as spending time with loved ones, were the same, males and females had different opinions regarding other ways they run their businesses.

Female entrepreneurs might be outdoing men when it comes to running successful businesses.

3 Rules for Business Success as a Woman Entrepreneur | AllBusiness.com

June 7, 2019June 5, 2019 ~ knjohn ~ Leave a comment

As the founder and CEO of Garnysh, a Silicon Valley-based fitness and technology company, I know a thing or two about surviving in business. And as a woman entrepreneur, I’m even more knowledgeable about the challenges female entrepreneurs face in that cutthroat world.

Here are what I consider to be three rules for business success that are easy to remember and can make a big difference in how you approach running your business.

Female Entrepreneurs Are Happier Than Male Entrepreneurs | Forbes.com

July 30, 2014 ~ knjohn ~ Leave a comment

Statistics for women in business are mostly bleak. For example, women still earn 77 cents to every dollar men make and just 7% of female-backed teams get venture funding. A recently released study however, offers a glimmer of positivity. When women have established businesses, they are actually happier than their entrepreneurial male counterparts, as well as rating their well-being more than twice as high as non-entrepreneurs and non-business owners, according to the 2013 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor GEM U.S. Report.

There was one caveat – female entrepreneurs who are just starting out are less happy than male entrepreneurs in the start-up phase, says Edward Rogoff, one of the reports authors. One out of 10 women in the U.S. is starting or running a new business, the report also found. This rate is higher than any of the other 24 developed economies measured.