Women, according to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, are the key to economic expansion. And all signs are pointing to that expansion hurtling on well into 2014 and beyond. In 2013, statistics from the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) reported that in the United States alone, 8.6 million firms were owned by women with about 7.8 million people employed and $1.3 trillion generated in sales. Of the 8.6 million women-owned firms, 2.7 percent are majority-owned by women of color and 4.2 percent of all women-owned firms have revenues of $1 million or more.

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