With the nation’s unemployment rate at ten percent, and women’s unemployment even higher than that, everyone knows that now is not the time to go looking for a job. Employers aren’t hiring and unless you are completely overqualified, you probably won’t even get an interview. Wages are low, jobs are scarce, and prospects for improvement [...]
Economists will tell you that one in three small businesses are out of business within the first three years and if that frightens you, then you might not have what it takes to be an entrepreneur. But, if you see that as a challenge, and something you want to take on, then you probably already [...]
There was a time when a woman working at all was shocking, but over the past century, we have made a lot of progress. Now, you will find women in every walk of life, doing every job imaginable, and even starting up their own companies. There has never been a better time than right now [...]
If you are a woman thinking of going into business for herself, then you are on the right track toward success. Many women spend their entire lives, working for someone else and not enjoying a single day of it. It is the lucky ones who get to do what they want and work for themselves. [...]
Most people would have a hard time thinking of more than a few names of women in small business. There are many reasons for this. First of all, most girls are not brought up to believe that they will be anything other than employees and mothers, while many boys are brought up seeing their own [...]
Despite all the progress that women have made over the past century, we still don’t have a lot of confidence in ourselves. If you are like most women, you have never really put any thought into starting your own business or being a woman entrepreneur. It seems too scary, too unsure, and the chances of [...]
My mother spent her entire adult life working for a government agency in a fairly non-descript job. She didn’t like her job, she dreaded every Monday for almost forty years, and she was never very good friends with anyone at work. The reason she stayed in that job was because she wanted a safe salary [...]
When you think of women who have been successful in business, who do you think of? Martha Stewart, Oprah Winfrey, Rachel Ray? These women are household names because they took a chance a long time ago and started to build their empire. They knew that they didn’t want to work for anyone else and that [...]
In today’s tough economy, more and more women are finding themselves in a position with an unreliable job, maybe one that doesn’t pay enough, and the need to make more money. This is just one of the many reasons why you may become a woman entrepreneur, but there are many more. Perhaps you have always [...]
When women are young girls, few of them actually have the goal of going into business for themselves. It just isn’t something that is drilled into our brains as little girls – that we could someday own a business. So, it should come as no surprise that most women go to work for other people [...]
