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Money & Business

Entries for August 2007

Glass Ceiling? Female Entrepreneurs Thrive

August 13, 2007 12:51 PM ET | Ewers, Justin |

There has never been a better time to be a woman with the entrepreneurial bug. Businesses owned by women are the fastest-growing sector of new ventures in the United States. Nearly half of all privately held firms in 2004 were at least 50 percent owned by women, according to the National Foundation for Women Business Owners. Between 1997 and 2004, the number of businesses owned by women grew by almost 20 percent, compared with only a 9 percent increase overall.

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Tags: women-owned businesses | entrepreneurship

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Justin Ewers is a senior editor in the Money & Business section at U.S. News & World Report, where he covers small business, Silicon Valley, and executive management. Most recently, he has written about eBay's growth strategy and Garmin's dominance of the GPS market. His cover stories for the magazine have tackled subjects ranging from Abraham Lincoln's boyhood to the latest trends in college admissions. He also reviews books occasionally for the Washington Post. Ewers earned both a bachelor of arts and a master of arts in history at Stanford University.

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