{"id":3548,"date":"2016-01-07T18:53:34","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T23:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bizwomenrock.com\/?p=3548"},"modified":"2016-01-07T18:53:34","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T23:53:34","slug":"u-s-women-owned-businesses-growing-but-most-are-one-person-firms-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bizwomenrock.com\/beta\/u-s-women-owned-businesses-growing-but-most-are-one-person-firms-research\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. women-owned businesses growing but most are one-person firms: research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written by:\u00a0BY <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/search\/journalist.php?edition=us&amp;n=ellen.wulfhorst&amp;\">ELLEN WULFHORST<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) &#8211; More than a third of U.S. businesses are now owned by women, a marked increase from previous years, but the vast majority of these are one-person companies, new research shows.<\/p>\n<p>The number of women-owned businesses has risen 27 percent since 2007 to 9.9 million, but only one in 10 of these has employees, according to the research compiled by the National Women&#8217;s Business Council (NWBC).<\/p>\n<p>Women-owned companies with employees generated $1.4 trillion in sales and receipts &#8211; the bulk of the $1.6 trillion generated overall by such businesses, it said.<\/p>\n<p>The NWBC looked at women-owned businesses as of 2012, using data from the U.S. Census Bureau which conducted business ownership surveys in 2012, 2007 and 2002.<\/p>\n<p>It found the number of businesses owned by women is growing at a faster rate than those owned by men, with the number of men-owned firms rising 7 percent to 14.8 million in the same period.<\/p>\n<p>Low interest rates, improved access to capital and support from lenders, investors and government has fueled growth in women-owned businesses, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Also boosting women&#8217;s businesses are online marketplaces for goods such as Etsy and eBay, said Amanda Brown, a spokeswoman for the NWBC, a Washington, D.C.-based federal advisory council.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s bringing more money into the household than perhaps they were bringing in before,&#8221; she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation on Wednesday. &#8220;With technology in general, there&#8217;s so much more you can do online and from your home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Also helping women in business has been the U.S. Affordable Care Act, President Obama&#8217;s health care reform law that expands access to insurance, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Sole-owner businesses might include consultants, tutors or nannies, Brown said.<\/p>\n<p>While the growing number of women-owned businesses is encouraging, the high percentage of those without employees means these businesses are not creating jobs for others, she said.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-women-business-usa-idUSKBN0UK2K320160106\" target=\"_blank\">&gt;&gt;&gt;CLICK TO CONTINUE&lt;&lt;&lt;<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by:\u00a0BY ELLEN WULFHORST NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) &#8211; More than a third of U.S. businesses are now owned by women, a marked increase from previous years, but the vast majority of these are one-person companies, new research shows. 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