A start-ups boom in the US, led by female entrepreneurs

October 29, 2022
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According to the findings of a recent poll, women and people of color are spearheading the surge in the formation of new businesses in the United States. According to Gusto, a firm that provides cloud-based human resources software, over half of all new businesses in 2021 were started by women.

A new high of almost 5.4 million new companies was established in 2021, which established a new record. According to the findings of Gusto’s study of new company owners in 2022, it is especially remarkable since this took place when the United States was “in the middle of a pandemic that only occurs once per century.” For the poll, responses were collected from more than 2,600 newly established company owners.

The proliferation of small enterprises in the UK

Alterations in business practices are also being brought about by the epidemic in the UK. Microbusinesses are firms that have fewer than ten workers and are increasingly being started by younger people, women, and members of ethnic minorities. According to the findings of a survey conducted by the online domain firm GoDaddy on 2.3 million microbusinesses in the UK called Venture Forward, the percentage of microbusinesses in the UK that are owned and operated by women has increased to over 40%, up from 32% before March 2020.

Entrepreneurs are also increasing younger. According to the findings of the survey, the percentage of people under the age of 35 who launch their enterprises has more than quadrupled since March 2020, going from 16.4% to 34%.

Additionally, a growing number of people from underrepresented groups are founding companies in the UK. The percentage of Asian entrepreneurs has also increased marginally, going from 10.1% before the pandemic to 11.9% after it, while the percentage of black founders has increased from 5.4% to 6.6%.

Female business owners from all across the globe

In emerging nations, there has also been a growth in the number of women who have started their businesses. According to the World Bank’s Female Entrepreneurship Resource Point, there is at least one female owner in between 8 and 10 million small and medium-sized businesses in the developing world.

A little less than a third of women throughout the globe are self-employed in some type of informal labor, with the agricultural industry being the exception. This is often done on a modest scale, from home, and with a concentration on retail and service-related industries.

According to the World Bank, being able to work from home enables women to “satisfy conflicting demands for their time.” This entails “a disproportionate share of the obligations of housekeeping and childcare,” among other things.

Lack of access to financial resources and legal inequities, such as limitations on women’s ability to own or manage the property, are two of the challenges that women business owners in emerging countries must contend with. According to data compiled by the World Bank, women own just one out of every three firms on a global scale.

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Women are working fewer hours

According to statistics compiled from throughout the world, women seem to continue to be hit harder by the epidemic than males. Since the height of the epidemic, women have lost a much greater number of working hours than men have, according to the World Economic Forum’s newly released Global Gender Gap Report 2022.

Responsibilities such as child rearing and caregiving have played a role in keeping women out of the workforce. Women have also been more negatively impacted than males by the loss of jobs in industries such as the hotel and retail sectors.

As a direct consequence, the percentage of working-age women has decreased, dropping from 60.1% in the 2021 edition of the Forum’s 146-country study to 51.7% in this year’s report.

Increases in the earnings of women

According to the findings of this year’s survey, women saw a slight improvement in their wage equality in 2022. This is because women are earning an average of 2% more than they did in 2021, whilst males are earning an average of 1.8% less than they did in 2021.

As per all analyses, it would take another 151 years before the worldwide gender gap in terms of women’s economic opportunity and accomplishment can be closed. According to the Forum, even though this is a significant increase from the economic difference of more than 260 years recorded in the previous year, the gap is still much too large.

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Increasing the number of women in technical jobs.

The Global Gender Gap Report 2022 identifies a shift in the kind of roles women are assuming as a good development that should be further explored. According to the findings, the proportion of women working in professional and technical professions has grown by 6.7% percentage points.

There are also a growing number of women holding high positions, parliamentary seats, and management positions. This proportion is now higher by 5.4 percentage points than it was before. Togo, which is located in West Africa, has the greatest percentage of women working in senior jobs, with 70.1%, while Belarus, which is located in Eastern Europe, has the highest percentage of women working in professional and technical roles, with 70%.

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