WOMEN IN NUMBERS
28.2 million More than $939 billion
Number of women 25 and older with a bachelor’s degree Revenue for women-owned businesses in 2002. There
or more education in 2007, more than double the number 20 were 116,985 women-owned businesses with receipts of $1
years earlier. million or more.
28% Nearly 6.5 million
Percent of women 25 and older who had obtained a The number of women-owned businesses in 2002. Women
bachelor’s degree or more as of 2007. This rate was up 11 owned 28 percent of all nonfarm businesses.
percentage points from 20 years earlier.
More than 7.1 million
928,000 Number of people employed by women-owned business-
The projected number of bachelor’s degrees that will be es. There were 7,231 women-owned businesses with 100 or
awarded to women in the 2008-09 school year. Women are more employees, generating $274 billion in gross receipts.
also projected to earn 391,000 master’s degrees during this Nearly one in three women-owned businesses operated in
period. Women would, therefore, earn 58 percent of the health care and social assistance, and other services, such as
bachelor’s and 60 percent of the master’s degrees awarded personal services, and repair and maintenance. Women
during this school year. In addition, women would earn owned 72 percent of social assistance businesses and just
nearly 50 percent of first-professional degrees, such as law over half of nursing and residential care facilities. Wholesale
and medical. and retail trade accounted for 38 percent of women-owned
business revenue.
Businesses
33%
Source for the statements in this section:
Women-Owned Firms: 2002 www.census.gov/prod/ec02/
sb0200cswmnt.pdf and
Company Summary: 2002 www.census.gov/prod/ec02/
sb0200cscosumt.pdf
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