SA women account for among the fewest global female business leaders
The global number of female entrepreneurs has grown more than 10% each year but SA still lags
August 26 marks Women’s Equality Day, which focuses on forging a gender-equal world, celebrating women’s successes and raising awareness of historical and present bias. There’s a lot of discussion at present about women in the workplace and under-representation in industry — 5% of US ownership in the tech industry is women, and only 2.9% of black women study STEM-related bachelor’s degrees across the world.
This raises the question: what about women in business? It seems that more women are turning to business than ever before. Surprisingly, when considering statistics across other international industries, the global number of female entrepreneurs has grown more than 10% each year. According to Karen Quintos, chief customer officer at Dell, women are equally as likely or more likely to start a business as men...
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