In 2019, the leading obstacle faced by women in business in the United States was balancing business and family life. That year, ** percent of female business owners said that this was the biggest obstacle they faced that their male counterparts do not.

New York City's "MWBE" program, enacted by the City Council and signed by the Mayor as Local Law 129 of 2005, is designed to promote government contracting opportunities for businesses owned by minorities and women. Our "Emerging Business Enterprise" program, enacted by the City Council and signed by the Mayor as Local Law 12 of 2006, is designed to promote such opportunities for businesses owned by persons who are "socially and economically disadvantaged." Together, the programs establish the following Citywide goals for contracts and subcontracts in amounts under $1 million.

This dataset provides insights into the record number of companies founded by women in the UK in 2023, along with information on gender representation in business and self-employment.

This statistic displays the women business owners share in Europe in 2019, by country. In 2019, the largest percentage of European women business owners could be found in Russia, at nearly ********* of the total business owners. In Ireland, on the other hand, only **** percent of the business owners were female. The highest score worldwide was visible in Uganda, at **** percent.

“We cannot measure what we cannot count.” NWBC entered into an Interagency Agreement with the U.S. Census Bureau to fund the development of custom tabulations on women-owned employer and nonemployer firms. The unique custom tabulations, which utilize data from both the Annual Business Survey (ABS) and the Nonemployer Statistics by Demographics (NES-D), are featured here as raw data to serve primarily as a resource for researchers and practitioners. To learn more about the ABS and NES-D, we encourage you to visit the U.S. Census Bureau’s website at: https://www.census.gov/. Sources: Annual Business Survey--https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/abs.html Annual Nonemployer Demographics Statistics--https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/abs/data/nesd.html

Women's Business Centers (WBCs) represent a national network of nearly 100 educational centers throughout the United States and its territories, which are designed to assist women in starting and growing small businesses. WBCs seek to "level the playing field" for women entrepreneurs, who still face unique obstacles in the business world. SBA’s Office of Women’s Business Ownership (OWBO) oversees the WBC network, which provides entrepreneurs (especially women who are economically or socially disadvantaged) comprehensive training and counseling on a variety of topics in several languages

Chile had the highest share of female entrepreneurs among the OECD countries in 2023 and 2024 with ** percent of women having started or in the process of starting their own business. Colombia followed with a share of ** percent. By comparison, the lowest rates of female entrepreneurship in the countries included were found in Poland and Denmark.

Women, Business and the Law (WBL) is a World Bank Group project collecting data on the laws and policy mechanisms that measure the enabling environment for women's economic opportunity. Since 2009, Women, Business and the Law has been enhancing the study of gender equality and informing discussions on improving women's economic opportunities and empowerment. The dataset offers objective and measurable benchmarks for global progress toward gender equality. Comparable across economies, the data is useful for research and policy discussions on improving women's economic opportunities. This year, the study presents two sets of data: Women, Business and the Law 1.0 and an expanded version, Women, Business and the Law 2.0. Women, Business and the Law 1.0 covers 190 economies and eight topics relevant to women's economic participation. Women, Business and the Law 2.0 introduces a new framework for measuring the implementation gap. It analyzes laws—de jure— and examines the existence of frameworks supporting implementation of the law and gauges experts’ opinions on the outcome of the law for women—de facto. Women, Business and the Law 2.0 introduces two new indicators – Safety and Childcare – and revises its ongoing indicators.

Women, Business and the Law measures legal differences between men's and women's access to economic opportunities in 190 economies. Thirty-five aspects of the law are scored across eight indicators of four or five binary questions. Each indicator represents a different phase of a woman's career. The methodology was designed as an easily replicable measure of the legal environment for women as entrepreneurs and employees. We update the data based on feedback from respondents with expertise in family, labor and criminal law. Indicator-level scores are obtained by calculating the unweighted average of the questions within that indicator and scaling the result to 100. Overall scores are then calculated by taking the average of each indicator, with 100 representing the highest possible score.

For more information about the methodology for data collection, scoring and analysis, and to use a new data visualization tool, visit http://wbl.worldbank.org.

According to a new study, women started 49% of new businesses in the United States in 2021. This is way up from 28% in 2019.

By measuring where the law treats men and women differently, this book shines a light on how women's incentives or capacity to work are affected by the legal environment and provides a basis for improving regulation. The fourth edition in a series, this book examines laws and regulations affecting women’s prospects as entrepreneurs and employees in 173 economies, across seven areas: accessing institutions, using property, getting a job, providing incentives to work, building credit, going to court, and protecting women from violence. The report's quantitative indicators are intended to inform research and policy discussions on how to improve women's economic opportunities and outcomes.

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“World Bank Group. 2015. Women, Business and the Law 2016 : Getting to Equal. Washington, DC: World Bank. © World Bank. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/22546 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”

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http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22546

In 2021, the United States was the leading country in the world in terms of supporting female entrepreneurship. The country scored **** index points, with New Zealand and Canada close behind. Of the ** countries included in the index, Bangladesh was given the lowest score with ****, followed by Egypt and Malawi.The Mastercard Index of Women Entrepreneurs (MIWE) rates women's conditions based on three components: women’s advancement outcomes, knowledge assets and financial access, and entrepreneurial supporting conditions.

Women, Business and the Law 2021 is the seventh in a series of annual studies measuring the laws and regulations that affect women’s economic opportunity in 190 economies. The project presents eight indicators structured around women’s interactions with the law as they move through their lives and careers: Mobility, Workplace, Pay, Marriage, Parenthood, Entrepreneurship, Assets, and Pension. This year’s report updates all indicators as of October 1, 2020 and builds evidence of the links between legal gender equality and women’s economic inclusion. By examining the economic decisions women make throughout their working lives, as well as the pace of reform over the past 50 years, Women, Business and the Law 2021 makes an important contribution to research and policy discussions about the state of women’s economic empowerment. Prepared during a global pandemic that threatens progress toward gender equality, findings on government responses to COVID-19 and pilot research related to childcare and women’s access to justice.

Citation
“World Bank. 2021. Women, Business and the Law 2021. Washington, DC: World Bank. © World Bank. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/35094 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”

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http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35094

Women, business and the law focuses on this critical piece of the puzzle, objectively highlighting differentiations on the basis of gender in 141 economies around the world, covering six areas: accessing institutions, using property, getting a job, providing incentives to work, building credit and going to court. Women, business and the law describes regional trends and shows how economies are changing across these six areas, tracking governments' actions to expand economic opportunities for women. For men and women throughout the developing world, the chance to start and run a business or get a good job is the surest hope for a way out of poverty. It also requires good business regulation, suited to the purpose, streamlined and accessible, so that the opportunity to build a business or have a good job is dependent not on connections, wealth or power, but on an individual's initiative and ability. The doing business report has led the way in providing data to countries about creating a sounder and more streamlined business environment. Women, Business, and the Law 2012 are the second in this series of reports. This edition retains the same basic structure of the 2010 pilot edition, while significantly expanding the depth of data covered. While the number of topics covered is the same, there has been a significant expansion of the data collected within these topics, thus addressing some of the initial shortcomings of the pilot edition. The number of economies covered has also been expanded from 128 to 141.

Citation
“World Bank; International Finance Corporation. 2011. Women, Business and the Law 2012 : Removing Barriers to Economic Inclusion. World Bank, Washington, DC. © World Bank. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/27444 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”

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http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27444

In the past 50 years women's legal status has improved all over the world. But many laws still make it difficult for women to fully participate in economic life whether by getting jobs or starting businesses. Discriminatory rules bar women from certain jobs, restrict access to capital for women-owned firms and limit women's capacity to make legal decisions. Gender differences in laws affect both developing and developed economies, and women in all regions. Women, business, and the law measures restrictions on women s employment and entrepreneurship as well as incentives for women s employment in 143 economies. Women, business, and the law and the World Bank's global financial inclusion global findings database show that in economies with a default full community of property regime, there are on average 10 percentage points more female owned accounts at formal financial institutions than in economies with a default separation of property regime. This report has shown that although much progress has been made in recent decades in gradually dismantling many of the legal restrictions which have hampered women from more fully contributing to national prosperity, there is a large unfinished agenda of reform. Gender equality is important not only for fairness and equity, but also for economic efficiency and is at the center of creating a more prosperous world.

Citation
“World Bank; International Finance Corporation. 2013. Women, Business, and the Law 2014 : Removing Restrictions to Enhance Gender Equality. London: Bloomsbury. © World Bank. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/20528 License: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO.”

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http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20528

This dataset represents a list of Minority and Women owned businesses as well as locations, services, and contact information.

Ireland Women, Business and the Law Index: Mobility Score data was reported at 100.000 Score in 2023. This stayed constant from the previous number of 100.000 Score for 2022. Ireland Women, Business and the Law Index: Mobility Score data is updated yearly, averaging 100.000 Score from Dec 1970 (Median) to 2023, with 54 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 100.000 Score in 2023 and a record low of 75.000 Score in 1986. Ireland Women, Business and the Law Index: Mobility Score data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Ireland – Table IE.World Bank.WBL: Governance: Women, Business and the Law Index: Annual.

In Latin America, Peru had the highest rate of female businesses ownership in 2021. Out of the total business owners, **** percent of them were women. Brazil followed second with ** percent of women's business ownership rate. Furthermore, women had overall higher necessity-driven entrepreneurship rates in the region than men.

Financial overview and grant giving statistics of Women's Business Development Center

Financial overview and grant giving statistics of Women's Business Group Inc

Payment totals, by quarter, for Minority Business Enterprises (MBE) and Women Business Enterprises (WBE). This information provides a snapshot in time and is subject to change based on available data. Also, please note that this information is related solely to contracts awarded through the Department of Procurement Services. For more information on the MBE/WBE Program, see https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/dps/provdrs/cert.html. The data for the initial launch combined the first two quarters of 2019. Subsequent data generally cover individual quarters but occasionally may also be combined.