Women-owned Business in United States represent a major source of economic growth Over the past six years, since the depth of the U.S. recession, the only businesses that have provided a net increase in employment are large, publicly traded corporations… and privately held majority women-owned firms. In all other privately held firms, employment has declined over the 2007–2013 period (WBENC, 2014). Women will create over half of the 9.72 million new small business jobs expected to be created by 2018. It’s a surprising statistic, especially considering that women-owned businesses only...