Purpose and benefits

Women in advanced market economies own more than 25% of all businesses, with one-third of new businesses in the European Union and 23% of those in Japan being established by women. In the United States, 38% of all businesses are owned by women.
Only 12.5% of the executive positions in US "Fortune" 500 publicly traded companies are held by women. Only two "Fortune" 500 companies have women CEOs or presidents, and 90 of those 500 companies don’t have any women corporate officers.
Between 1992 and 1997, the number of women-owned firms in the United States increased two-and-a-half times faster than businesses in general. Yet of the nearly 8 m women-owned businesses, only 1% have used venture-capital funding.
To win in business and in their careers women must not only be persistent and creative, but must learn to recognise and abandon a losing battle and become adventurers.